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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