Conserve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To protect from loss or harm; preserve: calls to conserve our national heritage in the face of bewildering change.
  • v. To use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste: kept the thermostat lower to conserve energy.
  • v. To keep (a quantity) constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary changes.
  • v. To preserve (fruits) with sugar.
  • verb-intransitive. To economize: tried to conserve on fuel during the long winter.
  • n. A jam made of fruits stewed in sugar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
  • n. A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
  • n. A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
  • n. A conservatory.
  • v. To save for later use.
  • v. To protect an environment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
  • v. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
  • n. Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
  • n. A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
  • n. A conservatory.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To keep in a safe or sound state; save; preserve from loss, decay, waste, or injury; defend from violation: as, to conserve bodies from perishing; to conserve the peace of society.
  • To preserve with sugar, etc., as fruits, roots, herbs, etc.; prepare or make up as a sweetmeat.
  • n. That which is conserved; a sweetmeat; a confection; especially, in former use, a pharmaceutical confection.
  • n. . A conservatory.
  • n. Aconserver; that which conserves.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
  • v. preserve with sugar
  • v. keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
  • v. use cautiously and frugally
  • v. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
  • Verb Form
    conserved    conserves    conserving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    preserve    keep    maintain    hold   
    Variant
    confection   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    save    preserve    protect    confection    conservatory    preserver    sweetmeat   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Merv    curve    deserve    mirv    nerve    observe    oeuvre    preserve    reserve    serv   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts