preserve
verb (used with object)
to keep alive or in existence; make lasting.
preservable
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a word derived from
preserve.
Example Sentences
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In Adès’ hands, it is this very transportation outside of our own experiences to an ancient and preservable realm that relieves a listener of expectations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
Conodonts are tooth-like phosphatic structures of an eel-like multi-celled organism that had no other preservable hard parts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
What is happening everywhere to every form of beneficial and preservable wild life that is not being actively protected to-day?
From Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation in January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry
We are therefore forced to conclude, from the aspect of living nature to-day, that for ages the early organisms had no hard and preservable parts.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
