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[ adjective ] prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use

Used in print

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

He found a jar of preserved tomatoes and one of eggs that they had meant to save .

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[ adjective ] kept intact or in a particular condition

Used in print

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

Oversized monsters are never brought home either alive or preserved , and field measurements are obviously open_to doubt because of the universal tendency to exaggerate dimensions .

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