n.
1.fruit preserved by cooking with sugar conserve v.
1.keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
2.keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
3.use cautiously and frugally
4.preserve with sugar
Idiom of the Day
rub salt in (someone's) wound
to deliberately make someone's unhappiness or shame or misfortune worse
My supervisor rubbed salt in my wound when he continued to criticize me for my mistake.