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Noun conserve has 1 sense
  1. conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves - fruit preserved by cooking with sugar
    --1 is a kind of confiture; confiture; confiture; confiture
    --1 has particulars:
     apple butter; chowchow; jam; lemon curd, lemon cheese; jelly; marmalade; 1 sense of conserve ; conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves; apple butter; chowchow; jam; lemon curd, lemon cheese; jelly; marmalade; conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves; apple butter; chowchow; jam; lemon curd, lemon cheese; jelly; marmalade; 1 sense of conserve ; conserve, preserve, conserves, preserves; apple butter; chowchow; jam; lemon curd, lemon cheese; jelly; marmalade
    Derived form: verb conserve4
,Verb conserve has 4 senses
  1. conserve - keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change; "Energy is conserved in this process"
    --1 is one way to     keep, maintain, hold
    Derived form: noun conservation3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up - keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
    --2 is one way to keep
    Derived forms: noun conservation1, noun conservation2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. conserve, husband, economize, economise - use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
    --3 is one way to save, preserve
    Antonyms: waste, blow, squander
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. conserve - preserve with sugar; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard"
    --4 is one way to     preserve, keep
    Derived form: noun conserve1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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