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preserve the peaches
Definition
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
- They removed the brain, eyes, and spinal cord and dropped them into a jar of preservative.p. 87.3
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- He lifted out the button with a wooden stick and soaked the button in plastic resin to preserve it.p. 186.2
- Anything alive in the mucus would be preserved temporarily.p. 172.9
- Thus a dry cave is a good place for a virus to be preserved, for it to lie inactive in dung or in drying urine, or even, perhaps, for it to drift in cool, lightless, nearly motionless air.p. 398.9
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