preserved
adjective
(of food or any perishable substance) prepared by canning, pickling, salting, or the like, or treated by some process to prevent decomposition or fermentation.
unpreserved
-
a word derived from
preserved.
Example Sentences
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This is the first study to directly compare preserved and unpreserved urine samples using a rapid direct-from-urine testing method.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026
The process of self-mummification is such that there is no way of knowing how many monks attempted it and failed, their unpreserved bodies left to decay and disappear.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024
It contains the largest uncut block of unpreserved virgin redwoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But we don’t keep anything of the kind in London, my dear sir; the tiles and leads are the unpreserved grounds of the sparrows.”
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn
If pheasants wandered into them on unpreserved ground, it was their own fault.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
