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salve

The correct spelling is salve.

How to pronounce salve

/sælv/
noun

IPA: /sælv/

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The correct spelling is salve. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  2. 2.Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

verb

  1. 1.To calm or assuage.
  2. 2.To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  3. 3.To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  4. 4.To salvage.
  5. 5.To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

interjection

  1. 1.Hail; a greeting.

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