All 5 Uses of

preserve
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

David fingered the fossils; light and delicate, millennia old, time preserved more clearly than any photograph ever could.†
p. 141.4

preserved = protected or kept something as it was

She burned light, she burned shadow, she burned these memories of David's, so carefully captured and preserved.†
p. 373.9 *

His mother had made preserves on the outdoor stove, stirring the foaming mixture as it cooked into syrup, boiling the jars and filling them to stand, jewellike, on a shelf.†
p. 116.8 *

Let me take your picture, David had called, insistent, and she'd turned to find him, kneeling, focusing, intent on preserving a moment that never really existed.†
p. 134.2

How many times had she stood just this way, the subject and an object too, posed to evoke or to preserve what really did not exist, her true thoughts locked away?†
p. 185.6

Definitions:

(1) (preserve as in: preserve the records)
to protect something or to keep it as it is
(2) (preserve as in: preserve the peaches)
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
(3) (preserve as in: a wildlife preserve)
protected wildlife area
(4) (preserve as in: no longer a male preserve)
something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
(5) (preserves as in: mom made preserves)
chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil