| Main Entry: | pickle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | preserve fruit or vegetable |
Synonyms: |
can, cure, keep, marinade, salt, souse, steep |
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook, age food |
Synonyms: |
dry, fire, harden, keep, kipper, pickle, preserve, salt, smoke, steel, temper |
| Main Entry: | marinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | soak |
Synonyms: |
bathe, brine, immerse, marinade, pickle, season, souse, steep |
| Main Entry: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
Synonyms: |
canning, care, conservancy, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, refrigeration, safeguard, safeguarding, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, sustentation, tanning, upholding, ward |
Antonyms: |
destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | preserve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, maintain; continue |
Synonyms: |
bottle, can, conserve, cure, defend, evaporate, freeze, guard, keep, keep up, mothball, mummify, perpetuate, pickle, process, protect, put up, refrigerate, retain, safeguard, save, season, secure, shelter, shield, store, sustain, uphold |
Antonyms: |
destroy, hurt, ruin |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
Synonyms: |
brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
Antonyms: |
dehydrate, dry |
| Concept: | Preservation. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
preservation; safe-keeping; conservation (storage); maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism; vis conservatrix; salvation (deliverance)., [Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods., [Superstitious remedies] snake oil, cure-all; charm.
-verbs
preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe [more]; take care of (care); guard (defend)., stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground, stand one's ground (resist) [more]., embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband (store).
-adjectives
preserving; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory, preservative; hygienic., preserved; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
-phrases
nolumus leges Angliae mutari.
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