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con⋅serve

  [v. kuhn-surv; n. kon-surv, kuhn-surv] verb, -served, -serv⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
2. to use or manage (natural resources) wisely; preserve; save: Conserve the woodlands.
3. Physics, Chemistry. to hold (a property) constant during an interaction or process: the interaction conserved linear momentum.
4. to preserve (fruit) by cooking with sugar or syrup.
–noun
5. Often, conserves. a mixture of several fruits cooked to jamlike consistency with sugar and often garnished with nuts and raisins.
Origin:
1325–75; (v.) ME < L conservāre to save, preserve, equiv. to con- con- + servāre to watch over, guard (akin to servus slave, servīre to serve ); (n.) ME < MF conserve, n. deriv. of conserver < L, as above

Related forms:
con⋅serv⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. husband, safeguard.
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con·serve   (kən-sûrv')   
v.   con·served, con·serv·ing, con·serves

v.   tr.

    1. To protect from loss or harm; preserve: calls to conserve our national heritage in the face of bewildering change.

    2. To use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste: kept the thermostat lower to conserve energy.

  2. To keep (a quantity) constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary changes.

  3. To preserve (fruits) with sugar.

v.   intr.
To economize: tried to conserve on fuel during the long winter.
n.   (kŏn'sûrv')
A jam made of fruits stewed in sugar.

[Middle English conserven, from Old French conserver, from Latin cōnservāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + servāre, to preserve; see ser-1 in Indo-European roots.]
con·serv'a·ble adj., con·serv'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

conserve 
c.1380, from O.Fr. conserver, from L. conservare "to keep, preserve," from com- intens. prefix + servare "keep watch, maintain" (see observe). Conservation and conservationist in the environmentalism sense are from 1922.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2con·serve
Pronunciation: k&n-'s&rv
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: con·served;con·serv·ing
: to maintain (a quantity) constant during a process of chemical, physical, or evolutionary change conserved>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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