Preserves Synonyms and Antonyms

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. conserves
  2. maintains
  3. saves
  4. husbands
Antonyms:
  1. neglects
  2. hurts
  3. destroys
  4. damages
  5. ruins
Maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. keeps
  2. conserves
  3. saves
  4. shields
  5. cans
To keep in a condition of good repair, efficiency, or use
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sustains
  2. maintains
Antonyms:
  1. discontinues
To keep from injury, peril, or harm; protect.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. defends

Preserves Sentence Examples

  • It still preserves its enceinte, 6 m.

  • Afterwards she brought a freshly roasted chicken, ham, preserves made with honey, and preserves made with sugar.

  • The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the château of the counts of Angouleme, on the site of which it is built.

  • This, as will be explained, did not take place to anything like the same extent in North America, the vegetation of which still preserves a more Miocene facies.

  • Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.

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