preserve against

preserve someone or something against something

to guard or protect someone or something against something. (Stilted or old-fashioned in reference to people.) I hope that the vaccine will preserve us against influenza. There is nothing in the jam to preserve it against spoilage.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ÙNa	OO-na	Scottish
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian
Alise (2)	-	English (Rare)
Ignatius	ig-NAY-shəs (English)	Late Roman
Jiang	-	Chinese
Aleixandre