Antonyms for conserve
kənˈsɜrv; ˈkɒn sɜrv, kənˈsɜrvcon·serve

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. conserve

   Antonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Synonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

Matched Categories

1. • Cooking
   • Keep
   • Preserve

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conserve, preserve, conserves, preservesverb

   fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

   Antonyms:
   waste, blow, squander

   Synonyms:
   preserves, preserve, conserves

2. conserveverb

   keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

   "Energy is conserved in this process"

   Antonyms:
   squander, waste, blow

   Synonyms:
   economise, preserve, husband, keep up, maintain, economize

3. conserve, preserve, maintain, keep upverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   squander, blow, waste

   Synonyms:
   follow, asseverate, carry on, keep, economise, observe, economize, hold, husband, sustain, defend, assert, wield, uphold, maintain, keep up, keep abreast, exert, bear on, preserve, continue, save, prolong

4. conserve, husband, economize, economiseverb

   use cautiously and frugally

   "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"

   Antonyms:
   squander, blow, waste

   Synonyms:
   keep up, economize, economise, maintain, preserve, save, husband

5. conserveverb

   preserve with sugar

   "Mom always conserved the strawberries we grew in the backyard"

   Antonyms:
   squander, blow, waste

   Synonyms:
   economise, preserve, husband, keep up, maintain, economize

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conserveverb

   Synonyms:
   save, preserve

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conserve

   Synonyms:
   Confection (Pharmacology)
   

2. CONSERVE

   Synonyms:
   Comparison Of New Stents for Equivalency of Reduction in Vascular Events

How to use conserve in a sentence?

1. Professor Johnson:

   Obviously we have to conserve based on the landscape at the minute, and it’s tempting to think that it has never been any different, but the genome is a powerful way of capturing diversity and looking back to see what it once was.

2. Baba Dioum:

   For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

3. Gavin Naylor:

   If you have got lots of different species and each species is supposed to occur in a distinctly different habitat, then you have to be very careful about preserving each of those species, if you find out that, in fact, it’s one species that is distributed over a wider area, then there is not quite so much pressure to conserve every single one of those different species because they are all the same thing. It also tells us this very same species is adaptable to living in different environments. It can live in Pakistan. It can live in Borneo and it can live in Myanmar.

4. Lisa Jackson:

   At Apple Stores, we’re constantly working toward smart solutions to address climate change and conserve our planet’s precious resources.

5. Bonner Cohen:

   We know the systems we have to build to make sure the state has plenty of water, but instead we have wasted millions of acre feet of water in the last 10 years, the thought that you can conserve your way out of this is not going to lead to any success.

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