conserve

conserve is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
2. transitive verb. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
3. noun. Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
4. noun. A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
5. noun. A conservatory.
6. noun. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

   Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves

7. verb. preserve with sugar

   "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard"

8. verb. use cautiously and frugally

   "I try to economize my spare time"

   "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"

   Synonyms: economise, economize, husband

9. verb. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

   "We preserve these archeological findings"

   "The old lady could not keep up the building"

   Synonyms: maintain, preserve

10. verb. keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

    "Energy is conserved in this process"

Synonyms

conserves, preserve, preserves, economise, economize, husband, maintain

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in conserve:

converse

Common word forms

conserved, conserver, conserves, conserving

Words from these letters

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