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conserve
[ verb kuhn-surv; noun kon-surv, kuhn-surv ]
verb (used with object)
- to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of:
Conserve your strength for the race.
- to use or manage (natural resources) wisely; preserve; save:
Conserve the woodlands.
- Physics, Chemistry. to hold (a property) constant during an interaction or process:
the interaction conserved linear momentum.
- to preserve (fruit) by cooking with sugar or syrup.
noun
- Often conserves. a mixture of several fruits cooked to jamlike consistency with sugar and often garnished with nuts and raisins.
conserve
verb
- to keep or protect from harm, decay, loss, etc
- to preserve (a foodstuff, esp fruit) with sugar
noun
- a preparation of fruit in sugar, similar to jam but usually containing whole pieces of fruit
Derived Forms
- conˈserver, noun
- conˈservable, adjective
Other Words From
- con·server noun
- noncon·serving adjective noun
- self-con·serving adjective
- uncon·served adjective
- uncon·serving adjective
- well-con·served adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of conserve1
Example Sentences
At Belmont, jockeys must not let their horse run too hard too early, and conserve some energy for the half-mile-long backstretch.
I am seeking to conserve nothing; I am looking ahead—and I am quite confident that I am not alone.
It sent its last picture 13 years ago, just before shutting down its camera to conserve power.
Districts may also employ additional tactics to conserve resources.
The agreement is hardly more than a list of ways that local communities can better conserve natural resources.
It will not conserve Christianity, but may be purified by it, even if able to flourish without it.
Barrington back into the present, to conserve his energies, to make him a man of action again.
Boil together a few times, and then pour the conserve into cases.
You have heard how women strive to conserve the lives of children, to make them strong mentally, morally and physically.
There is simply one way to conserve our natural resources, and that is to educate the farmer (applause).
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