To keep in a safe or healthy condition, To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require, To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss, transitive verb_ To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger, To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve, (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life, noun The herb sage or salvia, noun_ The herb sage or salvia, Baseball A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win, Sports An act that prevents a ball or puck from entering a goal