All 6 Uses of
preserve
in
Brave New World
- …. 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..6preserving = keeping
- 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
- "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.
p. 92..0preserve = keep
- … 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..0preserve = protect
- 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..9preserve = keep or protect
Definition:
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(preserve as in: preserve the records) to protect something or to keep it as it is