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Conserve   /kənsˈərv/   Listen
Conserve

verb
(past & past part. conserved; pres. part. conserving)
1.
Keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change.
2.
Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.  Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve.  "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
3.
Use cautiously and frugally.  Synonyms: economise, economize, husband.  "Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
4.
Preserve with sugar.
noun
1.
Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.  Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves.





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"Conserve" Quotes from Famous Books



... a platform of moral science, his doctrine is large enough to include all these works, in all their excellence, and give them their true place. A reviewer so discriminating, then, so far from that disposition to scorn and censure, which he reprehends, so careful to conserve that which is good in his scientific constructions and reformations, so pure in judgment in discovering and severing that which is corrupt, a reporter so clearly scientific, who is able to maintain through all this astounding report of the deficiences ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... elbows after they are brought out of the water. The reach should be straight out from the shoulders, placing the hands as far forward as possible before entering the water; by so doing you will conserve your energy. Hold the hands like a scoop; they should be about six inches below the surface before taking the sweep. While doing this the elbows must be perfectly stiff, sweeping the arms with considerable ...
— Swimming Scientifically Taught - A Practical Manual for Young and Old • Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton
... would conserve another valuable resource—coal. Of this fuel we have vast resources—"in West Virginia alone more than Great Britain and Germany combined." But the supply is not inexhaustible and we are mining it and using it in an extravagant manner. The loss here is not merely ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn
... answer them," Grantline declared. "Our game is to sit defensive. Conserve everything. Let ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... active. An occasional tap at first, then an almost continuous pecking, finally a twenty-minute drumfire that filled the reflector screens with madly dancing clouds of tiny sparks. Suddenly it ended. Either the king plasmoid had exhausted its supply of that particular weapon or it preferred to conserve ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz


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