Salve
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /sɑːv/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Salve is a noun meaning An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Meaning
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
More Meanings
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
- (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) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
Example Sentences
What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
[Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report
Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
Word Forms
- salves
- salving
- salved
Synonyms for salve
Depending on context, synonyms include salvage, relieve, balm, unguent, ointment, save.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unguent, ointment, salvage, relieve, balm, save.
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