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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
preserve/prɪˈzɜːv/
▶verb
- 1 maintain in its original or existing state.
■ keep alive (a memory or quality).
- 2 keep safe from harm or injury.
- 3 treat (food) to prevent its decomposition.
■ prepare (fruit) for long-term storage by boiling it with sugar.
- 1 a foodstuff made with fruit preserved in sugar.
- 2 something regarded as reserved for a particular person or group.
- 3 chiefly N. Amer. a place where game is protected and kept for private hunting or shooting.
– derivatives
preservable adjective,
preservation noun,
preserver noun.
preservable adjective,
preservation noun,
preserver noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. preserver, from late L. praeservare, from prae- ‘before, in advance’ + servare ‘to keep’.
'preserve' also found in these Oxford entries:
additive
- bluing
- brine
- can
- candy
- chow chow
- conservative
- Conservative Judaism
- conserve
- cure
- damson cheese
- dehydrate
- dry
- embalm
- enshrine
- fix
- fossilize
- freeze-dry
- marmalade
- morale
- mummify
- nature reserve
- peace officer
- pickle
- pot
- preservation order
- preservative
- process
- protect
- put
- refrigerate
- sake
- salt
- salter
- salvage
- save
- silage
- skippet
- smoke
- stratify
- tin
- treatment
- tree surgeon
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Conserve vs Preserve
Country people tend to preserve AmEn: True?
feminine preserve
Jam or Preserve
keep/preserve?
preserve a link with European pictorial tradition
Preserve area?
preserve the best?
Preserve the history?
preserve thoughts
preserve/conserve their primitive lifestyle
protect/preserve
to preserve them against the elements
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