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Definition
to protect something or to keep it as it is
- No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy–to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.p. 44.3
preserve = protect or keep
- .... continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs were kept;p. 5.6
- I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.p. 92.0
- ... absolute savages ... our inspectors occasionally visit ... otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world ... still preserve their repulsive habits and customs ...p. 103.1
- We preserve them from diseases.p. 111.0
- When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve.p. 179.9
preserving = keeping
preserve = keep
preserve = keep
preserve = protect
preserve = keep or protect
There are no more uses of "preserve" in Brave New World.
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