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US
/pɹəˈzɝvd, pɹiˈzɝvd, pɹɪˈzɝvd/
]
[ UK /pɹɪsˈɜːvd/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪsˈɜːvd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- kept intact or in a particular condition
- prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
How To Use preserved In A Sentence
- The ancient Egyptian language was written and spoken for two-thirds of recorded human history, and a great volume of economic and legal records are preserved in papyri and inscriptions, including some spectacular documents that go back to 2000 B.C. Beyond the Pharaohs
- Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home. Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds
- Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
- The BBC must ensure that due impartiality is preserved in its news programmes.
- In this way each part of the fan is aggraded and its symmetric form is preserved. The Elements of Geology
- Such verses are preserved mainly in the kings' sagas; many ‘lausavísur’ or occasional verses, and some love poetry are included in the narratives of family sagas.
- The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
- Like sausages, bacon tends to be very salty and may also be preserved with the chemical sodium nitrite, which has been linked to an increased risk of stomach cancer.
- The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk, which fills in the interior of the animal.
- One outstanding feature of this ecoregion is the presence of coral reefs, one of the largest and best preserved in the western Caribbean Sea, considered a part or an extension of the great belicean reef, very outstanding in terms of marine biodiversity. Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests