conserve
- to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
- to use or manage (natural resources) wisely; preserve; save: Conserve the woodlands.
- Physics, Chemistry. to hold (a property) constant during an interaction or process: the interaction conserved linear momentum.
- to preserve (fruit) by cooking with sugar or syrup.
- Often conserves. a mixture of several fruits cooked to jamlike consistency with sugar and often garnished with nuts and raisins.
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preserve, safeguard, maintain, sustain, hoard, skimp, support, stash, steward, scrimp, nurse, keep, squirrelExamples from the Web for conserve
Contemporary Examples of conserve
At Belmont, jockeys must not let their horse run too hard too early, and conserve some energy for the half-mile-long backstretch.
I am seeking to conserve nothing; I am looking ahead—and I am quite confident that I am not alone.
It sent its last picture 13 years ago, just before shutting down its camera to conserve power.
Districts may also employ additional tactics to conserve resources.
Doing so lets them conserve cash and maintain flexibility in pricing.
Historical Examples of conserve
He could preach, but could not conserve the results of his preaching.
Peter the HermitDaniel A. Goodsell
In the evening you are tired and you should conserve your strength.
Evening Round UpWilliam Crosbie Hunter
The most important principle is to conserve every particle of moisture in the soil.
Checking the WasteMary Huston Gregory
Let us sum up how the various resources may be used to conserve one another.
Checking the WasteMary Huston Gregory
In the canning of tomatoes, why is it desirable to conserve the juices?
Human Foods and Their Nutritive ValueHarry Snyder
conserve
- to keep or protect from harm, decay, loss, etc
- to preserve (a foodstuff, esp fruit) with sugar
- a preparation of fruit in sugar, similar to jam but usually containing whole pieces of fruit