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noun
1.
a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
2.
anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
verb (used with object)
3.
to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.
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Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English sealf; cognate with German Salbe salve, Sanskrit sarpis melted butter; (v.) Middle English salven, Old English sealfian
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English sealf; cognate with German Salbe salve, Sanskrit sarpis melted butter; (v.) Middle English salven, Old English sealfian
Synonyms
3. ease, alleviate, mollify.
3. ease, alleviate, mollify.
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| —n | |
| 1. | an ointment for wounds, sores, etc |
| 2. | anything that heals or soothes |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to apply salve to (a wound, sore, etc) |
| 4. | to soothe, comfort, or appease |
| [Old English sealf; related to Old High German salba, Greek elpos oil, Sanskrit sarpis lard] | |
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Word Origin & History
salve
O.E. sealf "healing ointment," from W.Gmc. *salbo- "oily substance" (cf. O.S. salba, M.Du. salve, Du. zalf, O.H.G. salba, Ger. salbe "ointment"), from PIE *solpa-, from base *selp- "fat, butter" (cf. Gk. elpos "fat, oil," Skt. sarpis "melted butter"). The figurative sense of "something to soothe wounded
pride, etc." is from 1736. The verb is O.E. sealfian "anoint (a wound) with salve," from P.Gmc. *salbojanan (cf. Du. zalven, Ger. salben, Goth. salbon "to anoint").
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
salve (sāv, säv)
n.
An analgesic or medicinal ointment.
salve v.
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Example sentences
The pain of tooth decay leads many people to use alcohol as a salve.
The root was pounded into a paste that was used as a salve for skin.
Through eight long years they had to salve their disappointment with marginal gains.
Among his treatments was a salve he marketed for rashes, chicken pox and other ailments.
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