salve
- Noun. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Noun. Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
- Verb. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
- Verb. To salvage.
- 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).
- Verb. (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- Verb. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
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