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Definition of Preserve

Preserve To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes. To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. To make preserves. To protect game for purposes of sport. That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural. A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food. Related Definitions: And, Are, As, By, Commonly, Cooked, Danger, Decay, Defend, Destruction, Evil, Fish, Food, For, From, Fruit, Game, Good, Guard, Harm, In, Injury, Intact, Is, Keep, Kept, Maintain, Make, Meat, Of, Or, Place, Plural, Preparation, Prepare, Preservative, Preserve, Preserved, Protect, Remaining, Salt, Save, Season, Seasoned, Silence, Some, Sport, State, Substance, Sugar, Suitable, That, The, Throughout, To, Use, Which, With

Preserve Quotations Reform, that we may preserve. Thomas B. Macaulay Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. John Quincy Adams Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. Friedrich Nietzsche The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Preserve Translations preserve in Afrikaans is inmaak, bewaar preserve in Danish is beholde preserve in Dutch is inleggen, inmaken, konfijten preserve in French is confire, confisons, confisent, confisez, conserver preserve in German is bewahren preserve in Italian is mantenere preserve in Latin is reservo preserve in Spanish is preservar, confitura

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