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Definition
to protect something or to keep it as it is
- Five people who watched each other, who now hardly troubled to hide their state of nervous tension. ... They were five enemies linked together by a mutual instinct of self-preservation.p. 191.5
preservation = protection
- Matter of self-preservation.p. 61.4
- But self-preservation's a man's first duty.p. 61.7
- Macarthur was hit with a life preserver or some such thing on the back of the head.p. 134.1
- Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation.p. 157.1
- I was careful to preserve her fingerprints on it.p. 273.7
preservation = protection
preservation = protection
preserver = protector
(editor's note: A life preserver is made to save the life of someone who is in danger of drowning in deep water. It is usually shaped like a ring with about a 2-foot diameter. It floats while keeping a person above the water. Life preservers are often seen near swimming pools where they can be thrown to someone who needs something to help them to float.)
(editor's note: A life preserver is made to save the life of someone who is in danger of drowning in deep water. It is usually shaped like a ring with about a 2-foot diameter. It floats while keeping a person above the water. Life preservers are often seen near swimming pools where they can be thrown to someone who needs something to help them to float.)
preservation = protection
preserve = keep as they were
There are no more uses of "preserve" in And Then There Were None.
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