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Conserves

noun
1.
Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.  Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves.


Conserve

verb
(past & past part. conserved; pres. part. conserving)
1.
Keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change.
2.
Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.  Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve.  "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
3.
Use cautiously and frugally.  Synonyms: economise, economize, husband.  "Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"  Antonym: waste.
4.
Preserve with sugar.
noun
1.
Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar.  Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves.





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"Conserves" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever destroyed every day in every year! Would the oil companies permit it? Would we not all assist them in saving their property from destruction, and shall we not ask of them equal help in saving the fuel that in turn conserves our coal supply? Little objection can be made to the present method of using gas in the older regions. The waste in domestic use is comparatively small. Much is used for lighting with incandescent burners, and asbestos grates and gas ranges have replaced the open-burner ...
— Checking the Waste - A Study in Conservation • Mary Huston Gregory
... up fighting position at 2 o'clock at night. An order, captured late on July 14, said: 'According to reports received, the enemy will commence early on June 15 their bombardment preparations for attack. At midnight hot coffee and meat conserves will be distributed. The troops will remain awake, armed and prepared to ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... humanity of his work in the mass conserves it against the mere veerings of taste. A reaction against it will inevitably come; but this will pass: what, in the future, when the unborn readers of Browning will look back with clear eyes untroubled by the dust of our ...
— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp
... not the effect sublime when the storm reached the heights of the mountains, and all the elements of Nature struggled so stubbornly?" And the young woman demurely gives him an assuring look which conserves all her interests; whereupon he backs off in triumph, and feels that the concert is worth ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... of his high rate of metabolism, the Nipe can store a tremendous amount of oxygen in his body, and can stay underwater for as long as half an hour without breathing apparatus—if he conserves his energy. When he's wearing his scuba apparatus, he's practically a self-contained submarine. The pressure doesn't seem to bother him ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett


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