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Salve Very Common

Salve has 9 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Verb · Intj

Definitions
Noun
1

semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

2

anything that remedies or heals or soothes

"he needed a salve for his conscience"

3

An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Verb
1

save from ruin, destruction, or harm

2

apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing

3

To calm or assuage.

4

To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

5

To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

Intj
1

Hail; a greeting.

See Also
calm heal cream unction panacea hail salvelike unsalved
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
remedy redress rescue medicate
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
arnica baby oil balsam carron oil cerate chrism lip balm mentholated salve mercurial ointment zinc ointment
Rhyming Words
lve elve calve halve wolve volve solve valve yelve helve delve exolve evolve twelve shelve d valve bivalve indelve undelve sprelve
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