Salve (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
  2. anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
verb (used with object), salved, salv·ing.
  1. to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.
verb (used with or without object), salved, salv·ing.
  1. to save from loss or destruction; to salvage.
interjection
  1. hail!
noun
  1. an ointment for wounds, sores, etc
  2. anything that heals or soothes
verb (tr)
  1. to apply salve to (a wound, sore, etc)
  2. to soothe, comfort, or appease
verb
  1. a less common word for salvage
  2. an archaic word for save 1 (def. 3)
Salve (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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