salve
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Synonyms: save, salvo, solve, calve, valve, sale, sarve, salle, halve, salse, salue
Antonyms: save, salvo, solve, calve, valve, sale, sarve, salle, halve, salse, salue
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Noun
- An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
- Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
Verb
- 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.
- To salvage.
Verb
- To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
- To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
Interjection
- Hail; a greeting.
Verb
- To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
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