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
- The herbal salve helped soothe her chapped lips during the winter months
- After a long day at work, a warm bath served as a salve for his tired muscles
- She applied a soothing salve to the small cut on her finger, providing immediate relief
- The kindness of friends can often act as a salve for emotional wounds
- He found solace in reading poetry, each line a salve for his restless mind
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