All 6 Uses of
preserve
in
And Then There Were None
- Matter of self-preservation.
p. 61..4preservation = protection
- 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..1preserver = protector
- Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation.
p. 157..1preservation = protection
- 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 *
- I was careful to preserve her fingerprints on it.
p. 273..7preserve = keep as they were
Definition:
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(preserve as in: preserve the records) to protect something or to keep it as it is