preserve

preserve is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 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 15 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.
4. intransitive verb. To make preserves.
5. intransitive verb. To protect game for purposes of sport.
6. noun. That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.
7. noun. A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.
8. noun. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

   Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves

9. noun. a reservation where animals are protected
10. noun. a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone

    "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

11. verb. prevent (food) from rotting

    "preserved meats"

    "keep potatoes fresh"

    Synonyms: keep

12. verb. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

    "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

    Synonyms: save

13. 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: conserve, maintain

14. verb. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

    "preserve the peace in the family"

    "continue the family tradition"

    Synonyms: continue, uphold

15. verb. keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing

    "preserve the forest and the lakes"

16. verb. maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger

    "May God keep you"

    Synonyms: keep

Synonyms

conserve, conserves, preserves, keep, save, maintain, continue, uphold

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in preserve:

perverse

Common word forms

preserved, preserver, preserves, preserving

Words from these letters

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