单词 | preserved |
释义 | preserved (once / 191 pages) adj Something that's preserved is kept in its original state or kept alive and fresh. Preserved artifacts are protected from damage, often in a museum where they can be kept safe. Preserved food is treated in some way that makes it spoil much more slowly than it would otherwise. Sometimes this is done by adding chemical preservatives, and other times it's a more natural process, involving drying, pickling, salting, or canning. Preserved fruit, cooked with sugar and sealed in jars, is also called preserves. These words all stem from the Medieval Latin preservare, "keep safe." WORD FAMILYpreserve: preservable, preservation, preservative, preserved, preserver, preserves, preserving+/preservation: preservationist, preservations, self-preservation/preservationist: preservationists/preservative: preservatives/preserver: preservers USAGE EXAMPLESThe Jewish state is gobbling up land that is supposed to be preserved for the Palestinians. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) For it was here, at the preserved Lorraine Motel, that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray April 4, 1968. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Months later, this coastal Georgia city hopes to see wood from the majestic oak preserved as works of art. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj kept intact or in a particular condition Syn|Ant conserved protected from harm or loss kept up, maintained, well-keptkept in good condition preservablecapable of being preserved protected, savedguarded from injury or destruction maintained, retainedcontinued in your keeping or use or memory destroyed spoiled or ruined or demolished damagedharmed or injured or spoiled annihilated, exterminated, wiped outdestroyed completely blighted, spoiltaffected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity blotted out, obliterate, obliteratedreduced to nothingness broken, impoverished, wiped outdestroyed financially burned, burned-out, burned-over, burnt, burnt-outdestroyed or badly damaged by fire demolished, dismantled, razedtorn down and broken up despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sackedhaving been robbed and destroyed by force and violence done for, gone, kaputdestroyed or killed extinguishedof a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement fallenhaving fallen in or collapsed finished, ruinedbrought to ruin scorchedhaving everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy shattered, tatteredruined or disrupted totaledused of automobiles; completely demolished war-torn, war-wornlaid waste by war wreckeddestroyed in an accident 2adj prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use Syn|Ant aged, cured (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) candied, crystalised, crystalized, glace(used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar canned, tinnedsealed in a can or jar corned, cured(used especially of meat) cured in brine cured(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry dehydrated, desiccated, driedpreserved by removing natural moisture flash-frozen, frozen, quick-frozen(used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value freeze-driedpreserved by freezing and drying in a vacuum freeze-dried, lyophilised, lyophilizedused of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum pickled(used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid pottedpreserved in a pot or can or jar brine-cured, salt-cured, salted(used especially of meats) preserved in salt smoke-cured, smoke-dried, smoked(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke sun-dried, sundrieddried naturally by the sun fresh not canned or otherwise preserved unprocessednot treated or prepared by a special process |
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