salve
1a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.
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How to use salve in a sentence
Allowing restaurants to sell cocktails-to-go would be a much-needed salve for the beleaguered industry
Twin Cities Restaurants Band Together to Push for Legalized Cocktail Sales | Joy Summers | February 1, 2021 | EaterI have tried CBD salves and THC spliffs, no beer and way too much of it.
Did Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail Ruin My Body? | Grayson Haver Currin | January 25, 2021 | Outside OnlineSince 1919, Wahl’s products have expanded to include personal massagers, pet groomers, and other hair care salves, shampoos, and lotions.
The best beard trimmer: Shape your facial hair with ease | Carsen Joenk | January 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis aromatic butternut squash and pear soup is a nourishing salve for chilly days
Washington needed to score to salve its nightmarish start and set up a second-half comeback.
How Washington’s passing offense clicked against the Giants — and what it means going forward | Sam Fortier | November 9, 2020 | Washington Post
Its readership expands in times when more of us need its particular brand of salve.
His only salve has been counting down the days until graduation.
It was comforting, a temporary salve, but we both agreed I should see someone more regularly in New York.
Then came remedies: the powder, the salve, the wondrous elixir.
New Study Says Doctors Can’t “Just Say No” to Their Patients | Kent Sepkowitz | March 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith it, we can help salve the seething anger that the fearful mainstream senses in the streets.
For one minute he even contemplated holding the two up and taking enough to salve his hurt pride and his endangered reputation.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerIt was a device by which thousands have tried to salve their consciences, and to try to find an excuse for wrong-doing.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingHow eager they will then be to prove their confidence by exaggerated devotion, to salve their guilty conscience!
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanWell, I'll make the salve an' do the talkin'; Giz'll sort o' whoop things up a bit and Lut'er'll git cured.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousStill, if trapped thus, they salve their consciences with the remark: The Christian had the sin, and I had the good dinner.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. Wigram
British Dictionary definitions for salve (1 of 2)
/ (sælv, sɑːv) /
an ointment for wounds, sores, etc
anything that heals or soothes
to apply salve to (a wound, sore, etc)
to soothe, comfort, or appease
Origin of salve
1British Dictionary definitions for salve (2 of 2)
/ (sælv) /
a less common word for salvage
an archaic word for save 1 (def. 3)
Origin of salve
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