conserve
verb (used with object)
to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of.
conserved
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past participleof conserve.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof conserve.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
conserveverb (used with object)to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of.
Example Sentences
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The team found that caffeine appears to affect aging by tapping into a deeply conserved energy sensing system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
“You’ll often read articles about conservation or about art that has been conserved and the name of the conservator is never mentioned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
After major credit-ratings firms downgraded Whirlpool’s debt to junk status, it raised money by selling new shares, and conserved money by suspending the dividend it had paid for 70 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
If properly conserved, they can last for hundreds of years.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Gradually, he began to discern patterns in the data—unanticipated constancies, conserved ratios, numerical rhythms.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
