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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of preserve.

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  • adjective kept intact or in a particular condition
  • adjective prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use

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Examples

  • The second definition of the word safe is "having been preserved from a real danger."

    Vaccine Safety FAQs 2008

  • You gotta get your own subject and if everyone picks somebody then there will be just that much more preserved from the floor cracks. at

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Again, the feast of the Purification was the time to kindle a “brand” preserved from the Christmas log.

    Leap Year -- Day John 2008

  • The second definition of the word safe is "having been preserved from a real danger."

    Vaccine Safety FAQs 2008

  • Tolkien's point on the wider sweep of imagination aside, I think there's something in the assertion that Beowulf uses materials "preserved from a day already changing and passing" to bring down though generations the story we claim we know.

    Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Beowulf is not a “primitive poem;” it is a late one, using the materials (then still plentiful) preserved from a day already changing and passing, a time that has now for ever vanished, swallowed in oblivion; using them for a new purpose, with a wider sweep of the imagination, if with a less bitter and concentrated force.

    Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • And by now, there's virtually no way to put two words together that doesn't have a Greek label preserved in aspic by generations of English department pedants.

    Analyzing The Text Of Obama's Inaugural Address 2009

  • In a sense, Gaskin preserved the spiritual optimism of the early Haight, which appealed to some of those in SDS who, unable to choose sides as the national organization splintered into competing factions, took new interest in the counterculture's idealist approach to social change.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • Beowulf is not a “primitive poem;” it is a late one, using the materials (then still plentiful) preserved from a day already changing and passing, a time that has now for ever vanished, swallowed in oblivion; using them for a new purpose, with a wider sweep of the imagination, if with a less bitter and concentrated force.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Tolkien's point on the wider sweep of imagination aside, I think there's something in the assertion that Beowulf uses materials "preserved from a day already changing and passing" to bring down though generations the story we claim we know.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

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