conserve
Other forms: conserved; conserving; conserves
To conserve is to save or protect something, like money, or your energy on a long run. People are also encouraged to conserve energy by turning off lights and not cranking the air conditioner.
Conserve is from the Latin for "to keep, preserve, guard" (conservare). Con means "together," so "together" we can "serve" the planet by not doing doughnuts in the wetlands on our jet skis. You can conserve the planet or a little something for yourself — you might conserve hot water so you can wash your hair later, or try to conserve your old bedroom when you go off to college (and your mom is ready for a home office).
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keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction“children must be taught to conserve our national heritage”“The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts”types:embalmpreserve a dead bodyplastinatepreserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposeshold the linehold the line on prices; keep the price of something constantmummifyremove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve ittype of:keeplook after; be the keeper of; have charge of
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use cautiously and frugally“conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit”
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keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
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preserve with sugar
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fruit preserved by cooking with sugartypes:apple butterthick dark spicy puree of appleschowchowa Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and gingerjampreserve of crushed fruitlemon cheese, lemon curda conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugarjellya preserve made of the jelled juice of fruitmarmaladea preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruitsapple jellyjelly made from apple juicegrape jellyjelly made from grape juiceorange marmalademarmalade made from orangestype of:confiturepreserved or candied fruit
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