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Word: salve (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An ointment, cream or balm with soothing, healing or calming effects.
  • Any thing or action that soothes or heals.

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Verb:

  • obsolete An astronomical term meaning to save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  • obsolete To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
  • obsolete to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  • To salvage.
  • transitive To calm or assuage.

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