Conserve vs Deserve - What's the difference?
conserve | deserve |
Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
* Tatler
(obsolete) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
(obsolete) A conservatory.
To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
* Strype
To protect an environment.
(physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
:After playing so well, the team really deserved their win .
:After what he did, he deserved to go to prison .
:This argument deserves a closer examination.
*Bible, Job xi. 6
*:God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth .
*Thackeray
*:John Gay deserved to be a favourite.
(obsolete) To earn, win.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*:That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue , / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.
(obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.
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*:Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte
(obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
*Massinger
*:A man that hath / So well deserved me.
As verbs the difference between conserve and deserve
is that conserve is while deserve is to be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.conserve
English
Noun
(en noun)- I shall study broths, plasters, and conserves , till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.
- (Evelyn)
Verb
(conserv)- to conserve fruits with sugar
- the amity which they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor