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The meaning of PRESERVE is to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction : protect. How to use preserve in a sentence.
Preserve definition: to keep alive or in existence; make lasting. See examples of PRESERVE used in a sentence.
to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed: to preserve the environment. We want to preserve the character of the town while improving the facilities. The agreement preserved our right to limit trade in endangered species.
When you preserve something, you maintain its condition, like trying to preserve your good health by exercising regularly and eating right. The verb preserve describes keeping something as it is now, without a decline in quality.
to prevent something, especially food, from decaying (= being destroyed by natural processes) by treating it in a particular way. preserve something Wax polish preserves wood and leather. preserved lemons. preserve something in something olives preserved in brine.
1. to keep safe from danger or harm; protect. 2. to protect from decay or dissolution; maintain: to preserve old buildings. 3. to maintain possession of; keep up: to preserve a façade of indifference. 4. to prevent from decomposition or chemical change.
to keep something the same or prevent it from being damaged or destroyed: to preserve peace. to preserve the environment.
If you say that a job or activity is the preserve of a particular person or group of people, you mean that they are the only ones who take part in it.
preserve. noun. /prɪˈzɜːv/. /prɪˈzɜːrv/. [singular] preserve (of somebody) an activity, a job, an interest, etc. that is thought to be suitable for one particular person or group of people. Football is no longer the preserve of men. I began my career in the days when nursing was a female preserve.
preserve. preserve something to keep a particular quality, feature, etc.; to make sure that something is kept He was anxious to preserve his reputation. Efforts to preserve the peace have failed. She managed to preserve her sense of humor under very trying circumstances.
