<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.</li><li>to use or manage (natural resources) wisely; preserve; save: Conserve the woodlands.</li><li>Synonyms: safeguard, husband</li><li>Physics, Chemistry: to hold (a property) constant during an interaction or process: the interaction conserved linear momentum.</li><li>to preserve (fruit) by cooking with sugar or syrup.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Often conserves: a mixture of several fruits cooked to jamlike consistency with sugar and often garnished with nuts and raisins.</li></ul>