conservate

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verb

To conserve.

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Meanings

verbconservate (third-person singular simple present conservates, present participle conservating, simple past and past participle conservated)

present singular third person conservates · participle present conservating · participle past conservated · past conservated

  1. datedtransitiveTo conserve.

    When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.

    1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve
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    The theory which was, and we believe is still maintained by the patentees, embraces the idea that the vitality of the animal is thus conservated and eventually conveyed to the plant per the Native Guano.

    1873, Van Nostrand's engineering magazine
  2. intransitivenonstandardTo practice conservation.

    I'm sorry, but if it's fun in any way it's not environmentalism. […] Let's conservate.

    2001 March, Matt Groening, “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 37

Origin

Back-formation from conservation.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

conservate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservate

MLA

“conservate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conservate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conservate.

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