preserved
- 1Simple past and past participle of preserve.
The museum preserved the fragile manuscripts for future generations.
Many local customs have been preserved despite decades of change.
Note
One regular form does double duty: the simple past (the museum preserved the manuscripts) and the past participle, which follows have and builds the passive. As a participle it also sits before a noun, often in the food-keeping meaning: preserved lemons, preserved meat. Hyphenated compounds such as well-preserved use it the same way. It belongs only to the verb. The nouns for jam or a nature reserve have plural preserves but no -ed form.
preserved is a form of preserve
preserve, verb: To protect someone or something and keep it from harm or injury. Full entry
- Forms
- preservepreserves he/she/itpreserving -ing formpreserved past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- preserve → preserved: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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