salve
IPA: sˈɑv
noun
- An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
verb
- (transitive) To calm or assuage.
- To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
- To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
- (dated) To salvage.
- (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
- (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
- (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
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Examples of "salve" in Sentences
- I applied salve on my scar.
- Salve acquired the property in 1982.
- He bought a salve from the pharmacy.
- The college prayer is the Salve Regina.
- He is an alumnus of the Salve University.
- I will try to put some salve on the hurt.
- The Lenape used a salve for sores on the skin.
- In other cases, the body is rubbed with a magic salve.
- After receiving a salve for the wound, Joan returned to the fight.
- Salve is useful as a dab in the least, no point in deleting it, methinks.