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Answer for the clue "Protect from depletion ", 8 letters:
conserve

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fruit preserved by cooking with sugar [syn: preserve , conserves , preserves ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conserve ( Dutch : "Uitgeverij Conserve") is a Dutch publishing organization that was founded in 1983 in Schoorl by Kees de Bakker . The company is specialised in publishing historical novels . Cynthia McLeod is one of the authors published by Conserve. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES conserve energy (= not waste any energy ) ▪ An efficient boiler will conserve energy and save you money. conserve energy (= use as little energy as possible ) ▪ The lions spend much of the day sleeping, conserving ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 wilderness where human development is prohibited. 2 A jam or thick syrup made from fruit. 3 (context obsolete English) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. 4 (context obsolete ...

Usage examples of conserve.

Tony May is analyzing the genomes of archaebacterial species that inhabit the hot, anaerobic waters of hydrothermal vents and deep rocks, looking for highly conserved genes that may have belonged to the universal ancestor of all life on Earth.

They had retreated for three generations, about thirty thousand human years, raising their broods on cold nestworlds around red dwarfs, conserving, holding back for the inevitable conflicts.

The Simes who had nursed their need, conserving it for this occasion, had taken transfer, and the drunkest of them had already sought out their spouses and settled down to enjoy postsyndrome.

Even in the moister regions, such as that of the Engelmann spruce type, it is very necessary to conserve the moisture in the soil after logging to prevent the remaining trees from being killed through lack of soil moisture.

In that time he had not only conserved what Flenser built, he extended it beyond the cautious beginnings.

With the vigils swarming around me, dancing through the tufts of flaming meadowgrass, I wove about her, conserving my strength for the moment I hoped would arrive when she would be between me and the river instead of the other way around.

November, 1917, with the whole United States giving support to the Government in subscribing upwards of five billions of dollars to the second Liberty Loan, and all forces working to conserve food, furnish men, ships, ammunition, clothing and supplies to her own troops and to her Allies, the world found America true to traditions, battling for the right and giving her best that liberty might endure and the burden of Prussianism be lifted from humanity.

The federal government urged all Americans to conserve essential foods for the sake of the other rationed or starving nations.

I will continue to pass on to you, from time to time, data that I have conserved, item by item as you need to know it.

The wealthier homes, shops, and offices surrounded cloister courts, vitryl-roofed to conserve heat and water, where statues and plants stood among fishponds and fountains.

Only a dozen flyers left in all the sky, exhausted, gliding where they caught the thermals and desperate to conserve energy, carrying their Lords whole or crippled, bearing them back to their stacks and their .

To me there was now a visible thinning out of numbers, and Oliver, with hardly a quiver in his voice, said that he was sending the mares home with their foals in an orderly progression as usual, with in consequence lower feed bills, fewer lads to pay wages to, smaller expenses all round: he would play fair with the bank, he said, matter-of-factly, making sure to charge what he could and also to conserve what he could towards his debt.

Gingerbreads, tarts, marzipan, and cakes, plus conserves, preserves, and marmalades of every type.

The French were pioneers not merely of an exploiting individualism of a day, or of a hundred or two hundred years, not merely of a democracy thinking of an equality of the men of one generation, but also of the conserving dynamic civilization of hundreds of centuries of a people--to come back again to that best of definitions--who are the invisible multitude of spirits, the nation of yesterday and to-morrow.

For a while they rode in companionable silence, conserving a flagon of fuel by traveling in the high-suction slipstream of a speeding Peterbilt that, judging by the advertisement on its rear doors, was hauling ice-cream treats to hungry snackers west of New Mexico.