Word Meanings - PRESERVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some

Additional info about word: PRESERVE

1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. 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. You can not preserve it from tainting. Shak. 3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. To preserve game, to protect it from extermination. Syn. -- To keep; save; secure; uphold; sustain; defend; spare; protect; guard; shield. See Keep.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESERVE)

• Condiment
• Sauce
• pickle
• preserve
• seasoning
• Embalm
• Conserve
• treasure
• store
• enshrine
• consecrate
• Keep
• Hold
• restrain
• retain
• detain
• guard
• suppress
• repress
• conceal
• tend
• support
• maintain
• conduct
• continue
• obey
• haunt
• observe
• frequent
• celebrate
• protect
• adhere to
• practise
• binder
• sustain
• Protect
• Defend
• fortify
• shield
• cover
• secure
• save
• vindicate
• Rescue Retake
• recover
• recapture
• liberate
• extricate
• deliver

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRESERVE)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Loosen
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Drop
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress
• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste

Related words: (words related to PRESERVE)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SAUCEPAN
  A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• SAUCE
  pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• CHAUNTERIE
  See CHAUCER
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.