| preserve | | |
| n. (state) | 1. preserve | a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone.; "medicine is no longer a male preserve" |
| ~ arena, domain, sphere, orbit, area, field | a particular environment or walk of life.; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" |
| n. (location) | 2. preserve | a reservation where animals are protected. |
| ~ reservation, reserve | a district that is reserved for particular purpose. |
| ~ shooting preserve | a preserve on which hunting is permitted during certain months of the year. |
| n. (food) | 3. conserve, conserves, preserve, preserves | fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. |
| ~ confiture | preserved or candied fruit. |
| ~ apple butter | thick dark spicy puree of apples. |
| ~ chowchow | a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger. |
| ~ jam | preserve of crushed fruit. |
| ~ lemon cheese, lemon curd | a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar. |
| ~ jelly | a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit. |
| ~ marmalade | a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits. |
| v. (stative) | 4. bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold | keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" |
| ~ resume, re-start, restart | take up or begin anew.; "We resumed the negotiations" |
| ~ hang in, persevere, hang on, persist, hold on | be persistent, refuse to stop.; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions" |
| ~ go forward, proceed, continue | move ahead; travel onward in time or space.; "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now" |
| ~ perpetuate | cause to continue or prevail.; "perpetuate a myth" |
| ~ sustain, keep up, prolong | lengthen or extend in duration or space.; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" |
| ~ mummify | preserve while making lifeless.; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of" |
| ~ hold, keep, maintain | keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,.; "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" |
| ~ continue, go on, go along, keep, proceed | continue a certain state, condition, or activity.; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight" |
| v. (possession) | 5. conserve, keep up, maintain, preserve | keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts" |
| ~ keep | look after; be the keeper of; have charge of.; "He keeps the shop when I am gone" |
| ~ embalm | preserve a dead body. |
| ~ plastinate | preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes.; "The doctor plastinates bodies to teach anatomy to his students" |
| ~ hold the line | hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant. |
| v. (possession) | 6. preserve, save | to keep up and reserve for personal or special use.; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer" |
| ~ record, enter, put down | make a record of; set down in permanent form. |
| ~ keep, hold on | retain possession of.; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married" |
| ~ economize, husband, economise, conserve | use cautiously and frugally.; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" |
| v. (change) | 7. keep, preserve | prevent (food) from rotting.; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" |
| ~ freeze-dry | preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum.; "freeze-dry the strawberries" |
| ~ conserve | preserve with sugar.; "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard" |
| ~ dehydrate, desiccate | preserve by removing all water and liquids from.; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" |
| ~ pickle | preserve in a pickling liquid. |
| ~ salt | preserve with salt.; "people used to salt meats on ships" |
| ~ can, tin, put up | preserve in a can or tin.; "tinned foods are not very tasty" |
| ~ refrigerate | preserve by chilling.; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil" |
| ~ cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| ~ corn | preserve with salt.; "corned beef" |
| ~ ready, cook, prepare, fix, make | prepare for eating by applying heat.; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" |
| ~ stay fresh, keep | fail to spoil or rot.; "These potatoes keep for a long time" |
| v. (stative) | 8. keep, preserve | maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger.; "May God keep you" |
| ~ protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage.; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" |
| ~ keep | look after; be the keeper of; have charge of.; "He keeps the shop when I am gone" |
| v. (stative) | 9. preserve | keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing.; "preserve the forest and the lakes" |
| ~ hold, keep, maintain | keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,.; "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" |
| vitalize | | |
| v. (change) | 1. vitalise, vitalize | give life to.; "The eggs are vitalized" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 2. vitalise, vitalize | make more lively or vigorous.; "The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man" |
| ~ beef up, fortify, strengthen | make strong or stronger.; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries" |
| animate | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate | heighten or intensify.; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ encourage | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. |
| v. (change) | 2. animate, animise, animize | give lifelike qualities to.; "animated cartoons" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 3. animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up | make lively.; "let's liven up this room a bit" |
| ~ energize, energise, perk up, arouse, brace, stimulate | cause to be alert and energetic.; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" |
| ~ ginger up, jazz up, juice up, pep up | make more interesting or lively.; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper" |
| ~ inspirit, spirit, spirit up | infuse with spirit.; "The company spirited him up" |
| v. (body) | 4. animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify | give new life or energy to.; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" |
| ~ energize, energise, perk up, arouse, brace, stimulate | cause to be alert and energetic.; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" |
| ~ resuscitate, come to, revive | return to consciousness.; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" |
| adj. | 5. animate | belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.; "the word `dog' is animate" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| adj. | 6. animate | endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.; "we are animate beings" |
| adj. | 7. animate, sentient | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" |
| ~ sensate | having physical sensation.; "sensate creatures" |
| live | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. dwell, inhabit, live, populate | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| ~ tenant | occupy as a tenant. |
| ~ neighbor, neighbour | live or be located as a neighbor.; "the neighboring house" |
| ~ lodge in, occupy, reside | live (in a certain place).; "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" |
| ~ domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack | make one's home in a particular place or community.; "may parents reside in Florida" |
| ~ people | furnish with people.; "The plains are sparsely populated" |
| ~ overpopulate | cause to have too great a population.; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" |
| ~ cohabit, live together, shack up | share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple. |
| ~ lodge | be a lodger; stay temporarily.; "Where are you lodging in Paris?" |
| ~ bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent | live in or as if in a tent.; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" |
| ~ nest | inhabit a nest, usually after building.; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ room, board | live and take one's meals at or in.; "she rooms in an old boarding house" |
| v. (stative) | 2. live | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| ~ move | live one's life in a specified environment.; "she moves in certain circles only" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| ~ dissipate | live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption. |
| ~ live | pursue a positive and satisfying existence.; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" |
| ~ swing | live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style.; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely" |
| ~ live down, unlive | live so as to annul some previous behavior.; "You can never live this down!" |
| ~ wanton | indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life. |
| ~ vegetate | lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind. |
| ~ pig, pig it | live like a pig, in squalor. |
| ~ bushwhack | live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla. |
| ~ buccaneer | live like a buccaneer. |
| ~ bach, bachelor | lead a bachelor's existence. |
| ~ eke out | live from day to day, as with some hardship.; "He eked out his years in great poverty" |
| ~ cash out | choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals.; "After 3 decades in politics, she cashed out and moved to Polynesia" |
| v. (stative) | 3. endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" |
| ~ live, be | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| ~ live, be | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| ~ subsist, exist, survive, live | support oneself.; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" |
| ~ hold water, stand up, hold up | resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc..; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water" |
| ~ perennate | survive from season to season, of plants. |
| ~ live out | live out one's life; live to the end. |
| v. (stative) | 4. exist, live, subsist, survive | support oneself.; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" |
| ~ breathe | be alive.; "Every creature that breathes" |
| ~ freewheel, drift | live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely.; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" |
| ~ live on, survive, last, endure, live, hold out, hold up, go | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" |
| v. (stative) | 5. be, live | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| ~ live on, survive, last, endure, live, hold out, hold up, go | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. experience, know, live | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" |
| ~ taste | experience briefly.; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" |
| ~ live over, relive | experience again, often in the imagination.; "He relived the horrors of war" |
| ~ experience, go through, see | go or live through.; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" |
| v. (stative) | 7. live | pursue a positive and satisfying existence.; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" |
| ~ live | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| adj. | 8. live, unrecorded | actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience" |
| ~ unfilmed, untaped | not recorded on film or tape. |
| adj. | 9. live | exerting force or containing energy.; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" |
| ~ active | (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt.; "active volcanos" |
| ~ in play | of a ball.; "the ball is still in play" |
| ~ living | (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.; "carved into the living stone" |
| adj. | 10. alive, live | possessing life.; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" |
| ~ liveborn | (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn.; "a liveborn baby" |
| ~ viable | capable of life or normal growth and development.; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus" |
| ~ vital | manifesting or characteristic of life.; "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs" |
| ~ animate | endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.; "we are animate beings" |
| adj. | 11. live | highly reverberant.; "a live concert hall" |
| ~ reverberant | having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected.; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" |
| adj. | 12. live | charged with an explosive.; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" |
| ~ loaded | (of weapons) charged with ammunition.; "a loaded gun" |
| adj. | 13. bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy | elastic; rebounds readily.; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" |
| ~ elastic | capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy.; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk" |
| adj. | 14. live | abounding with life and energy.; "the club members are a really live bunch" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ lively | full of life and energy.; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party" |
| adj. | 15. live | in current use or ready for use.; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" |
| ~ printing process, printing | reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication. |
| ~ current | occurring in or belonging to the present time.; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" |
| adj. | 16. live | of current relevance.; "a live issue"; "still a live option" |
| ~ current | occurring in or belonging to the present time.; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" |
| adj. | 17. hot, live | charged or energized with electricity.; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" |
| ~ electricity | a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons. |
| ~ charged | of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.; "charged particles"; "a charged battery" |
| adj. | 18. alive, live | capable of erupting.; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" |
| ~ active | (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting. |
| adv. | 19. live | not recorded.; "the opera was broadcast live" |
| living | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. life, living | the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities.; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
| ~ experience | the content of direct observation or participation in an event.; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly" |
| n. (group) | 2. living | people who are still living.; "save your pity for the living" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| n. (state) | 3. aliveness, animation, life, living | the condition of living or the state of being alive.; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" |
| ~ being, beingness, existence | the state or fact of existing.; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" |
| ~ eternal life, life eternal | life without beginning or end. |
| ~ skin | a person's skin regarded as their life.; "he tried to save his skin" |
| ~ survival, endurance | a state of surviving; remaining alive. |
| n. (possession) | 4. bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance | the financial means whereby one lives.; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" |
| ~ resource | available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed. |
| ~ amenities, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts | things that make you comfortable and at ease.; "all the comforts of home" |
| ~ maintenance | means of maintenance of a family or group. |
| ~ meal ticket | a source of income or livelihood. |
| ~ subsistence | minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting.; "social security provided only a bare subsistence" |
| adj. (pertain) | 5. living | pertaining to living persons.; "within living memory" |
| adj. | 6. living | true to life; lifelike.; "the living image of her mother" |
| ~ realistic | aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are.; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans" |
| adj. | 7. living | (informal) absolute.; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
| ~ absolute | perfect or complete or pure.; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" |
| adj. | 8. living, surviving | still in existence.; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" |
| ~ extant | still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost.; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk" |
| adj. | 9. living | still in active use.; "a living language" |
| ~ extant | still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost.; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk" |
| adj. | 10. living | (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.; "carved into the living stone" |
| ~ live | exerting force or containing energy.; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" |
| survive | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive | continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).; "He survived the cancer against all odds" |
| ~ convalesce, recover, recuperate | get over an illness or shock.; "The patient is recuperating" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| v. (stative) | 2. outlast, outlive, survive | live longer than.; "She outlived her husband by many years" |
| ~ live, be | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
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