Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to preserve
Participle: preserved
Gerund: preserving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | preserve |
| you | preserve |
| he;she;it | preserves |
| we | preserve |
| you | preserve |
| they | preserve |
Perfect
| I | have preserved |
| you | have preserved |
| he;she;it | has preserved |
| we | have preserved |
| you | have preserved |
| they | have preserved |
Past
| I | preserved |
| you | preserved |
| he;she;it | preserved |
| we | preserved |
| you | preserved |
| they | preserved |
Pluperfect
| I | had preserved |
| you | had preserved |
| he;she;it | had preserved |
| we | had preserved |
| you | had preserved |
| they | had preserved |
Future
| I | will preserve |
| you | will preserve |
| he;she;it | will preserve |
| we | will preserve |
| you | will preserve |
| they | will preserve |
Future Perfect
| I | will have preserved |
| you | will have preserved |
| he;she;it | will have preserved |
| we | will have preserved |
| you | will have preserved |
| they | will have preserved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | preserve |
| you | preserve |
| he;she;it | preserve |
| we | preserve |
| you | preserve |
| they | preserve |
Perfect
| I | have preserved |
| you | have preserved |
| he;she;it | have preserved |
| we | have preserved |
| you | have preserved |
| they | have preserved |
Imperfect
| I | preserved |
| you | preserved |
| he;she;it | preserved |
| we | preserved |
| you | preserved |
| they | preserved |
Pluperfect
| I | had preserved |
| you | had preserved |
| he;she;it | had preserved |
| we | had preserved |
| you | had preserved |
| they | had preserved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would preserve |
| you | would preserve |
| he;she;it | would preserve |
| we | would preserve |
| you | would preserve |
| they | would preserve |
Perfect
| I | would have preserved |
| you | would have preserved |
| he;she;it | would have preserved |
| we | would have preserved |
| you | would have preserved |
| they | would have preserved |
Imperative
| you | preserve |
| we | Let's preserve |
| you | preserve |
Verbs conjugated like 'preserve'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'preserve'
reserve,
deserve,
preeve,
presence,
renerve,
unreserve,
beselve,
conserve,
disserve,
enerve,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make or keep a person or object safe from attack
- beshield, beward, brood, cape for, defend, fend, guard, protect, safeguard, secure, shelter, shield, ward
- keep
- conserve, retain
- guard
- defend, protect, safeguard, save, shelter, shield
- maintain
- continue, sustain, uphold
- can
- process, cure, bottle, corn
Antonyms
- to change the form or structure of
- leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, alter
- keep
- discard, dismiss, disperse
- guard
- attack, assault, desert, forsake
- maintain
- discontinue, quit, forsake, leave
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1375, from O.Fr. preserver, from M.L. preservare "keep, preserve," from L.L. præservare "guard beforehand," from L. præ- "before" + servare "to keep safe." The noun sense of "fruit preserved with sugar" is from 1600; that of "protected place for animals or plants" (a sense more properly belonging to conserve) is from 1807. Preservationist "advocate of protecting historic property" is recorded from 1927. Preservative (adj.) is attested from 1398; the noun sense of "chemical added to foods to keep them from rotting" is from 1875.
2. From Middle English preserven, from Old French preserver, from Medieval Latin prēservāre (“keep, preserve”), from Late Latin praeservāre (“guard beforehand”), from prae (“before”, adverb) + servāre (“maintain, keep”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Sample Sentences
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[...] suppose this Halifax would have appeared an Elysium, though it had been a curiosity of ugly dulness. But I carried away with me a most pleasant impression of the town and its inhabitants, and have preserved it to this hour. Nor was it without regret that I came home, without having found an opportunity of returning thither, and once more shaking hands with the friends I made that day.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and were taken up and prolonged by all the smaller fry, who were lying, in any quantity, about on the floor, or perched in every corner. In the height of the uproar and laughter, Sam, however, preserved an immovable gravity, only from time to time rolling his eyes up, and giving his auditors divers inexpressibly droll glances, without departing from the sententious elevation of his oratory.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Take the worst parts of the City Road and Pentonville, or the straggling outskirts of Paris, where the houses are smallest, preserving all their oddities, but especially the small shops and dwellings, occupied in Pentonville (but not in Washington ) by furniture-brokers, keepers of poor eating-houses, and fanciers of birds. Burn [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] man, even among the miscellaneous crowd in the hall who were admitted without any orders or tickets to look on, appeared to feel that he was a part of the Institution, and was responsible for its preserving a becoming character, and appearing to the best advantage.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was very much interested in looking over a number of treaties made from time to time with the poor Indians, signed by the different chiefs at the period of their ratification, and preserved in the office of the Secretary to the Commonwealth. These signatures, traced of course by their own hands, are rough drawings of the creatures or weapons they were called after. Thus, the Great [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] would very much like, he said, to see England before he died; and spoke with much interest about the great things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to be, thousands of years ago, he was very attentive, and it was not hard to see that he had a reference in his mind to the gradual fading away of his own [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and moved among the people in the boat, another kind of being. He sent me a lithographed portrait of himself soon afterwards; very like, though scarcely handsome enough; which I have carefully preserved in memory of our brief acquaintance.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] well-remembered writing. It was handed to him while he was in full tide of gay and successful conversation, in a whole room-full of company. He turned deadly pale when he saw the writing, but still preserved his composure, and finished the playful warfare of badinage which he was at the moment carrying on with a lady opposite; and, a short time after, was missed from the circle. In his room, alone, he [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to a Guide, where little relics of the place are sold, and where visitors register their names in a book kept for the purpose. On the wall of the room in which a great many of these volumes are preserved, the following request is posted: ‘Visitors will please not copy nor extract the remarks and poetical effusions from the registers and albums kept here. ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] certain stanzas with an anti-climax at the end of each, which were framed and hung up on the wall. Curious, however, after reading this announcement, to see what kind of morsels were so carefully preserved, I turned a few leaves, and found them scrawled all over with the vilest and the filthiest ribaldry that ever human hogs delighted in.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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" She appears in different forms " " Originating, preserving and destroying "
(Geethanjali Malli Vachindi)