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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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