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preserve

English

  1. 🔊 a reservation where animals are protected
  2. 🔊 a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone
    “medicine is no longer a male preserve”
  3. 🔊 fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
  4. 🔊 prevent (food) from rotting
    “preserved meats”
  5. 🔊 keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
    “preserve the forest and the lakes”
  6. 🔊 to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
    “She saved the old family photographs in a drawer”
  7. 🔊 keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
    “We preserve these archeological findings”
  8. 🔊 maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
    “May God keep you”
  9. 🔊 keep or maintain in unaltered condition
    “preserve the peace in the family”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 preservar to preserve
  2. 🔊 conservar to preserve, retain.
  3. 🔊 coto preserve, wildlife preserve, land preserve

Similar words

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