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Preservers
- noun - a cook who preserves fruits or meat
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
Preserving
- verb - keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"
- prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use;
Pretendant
- - A pretender; a claimant.
Pretenders
- noun - a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Pretending
- verb - behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
- make believe with the intent to deceive;
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
- state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
Pretension
- noun - a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
- the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Preterient
- - Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
Preterists
- noun - a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled
Preterites
- noun - A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past
- a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
Pretermits
- verb - disregard intentionally or let pass
- leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"