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noun salvsæv 1An ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection. the wound should be washed with water and then a salve applied mass noun he doctored their hurts with some strong-smelling salve Example sentencesExamples - After I stopped the bleeding I put a root extract and honey salve on it to protect it from infection and promote healing.
- She treated the woman's wound as if it were from an arrow: applying salve, and binding the hole, but it did not help.
- Rags were boiled for bandages and an assortment of ointments and salves were applied on Erik's skin to promote healing.
- Calendula helps to heal broken skin, and the oil in the salve creates a protective barrier that prevents mucous membranes from drying out.
- Then he deftly smeared some salve on the wound and wrapped it with a new bandage, taping it in place.
- And as for you, Mr. Monk, I will get you some salve for those cuts.
- Quickly I washed the wound clean and applied the salve before once more bandaging his leg.
- Numair applied all of the salve for the bleeding that he dared, but Kefari's blood all but refused to fully clot.
- These powerful immune-suppressing salves have become popular for hard-to-treat eczema, a condition characterized by red, itchy, inflamed skin.
- After he was finished, the woman dressed his sore wounds with a cooling salve.
- He took stick-on bandages from the small first aid kit he carried and, rubbing some healing salve over the wounds, covered them with the bandages.
- Other cuts and bruises were likewise administered a healing salve and from his skin I managed to scrub much of the soil and blood.
- Once the splint was in place, David continued his work and applied the salve he just made on all of the wounds that would require it.
- He wiped her foot again to clean away the blood, then taking the salve, he covered the wound and wrapped her foot.
- He looked at Lanfilar, who was helping an Olindu prepare a healing salve for the many battle wounds taken.
- John Arderne was proudest of the remedies he devised for the battlefield and particularly a salve for arrow wounds that he called sang d' amor - in mediaeval French, the blood of love.
- She got the fire started and prepared some salve to cover his wound.
- She could rub salve on his open wounds later, she bandaged a few that were bleeding badly but then covered him in his blankets and stroked his forehead.
- After using the salve, she began to dress the wound.
- Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
Synonyms ointment, cream, balm, unction, unguent, balsam, pomade, rub, embrocation, emollient, liniment - 1.1 Something that is soothing or consoling for wounded feelings or an uneasy conscience.
the idea provided him with a salve for his guilt Example sentencesExamples - Plath's novel and its melancholy protagonist, whom I would later learn was a thinly veiled version of Plath herself, proved to be the perfect salve for my tortured adolescent mind.
- Yet, no amount of salve could treat my conscience.
- If a writer of epic fantasy isn't willing to trust her imagination and her story - is afraid to let it matter - can a salve for the troubles that afflict us still be found in books?
- The answer is education - that great universal salve for all of the ills of humankind.
- So we obsessively analyze this epic Homerian battle, trying to find a moment of heroism, a brief glimpse to help salve our morally guilty wounds.
- Paganism has proven to be the ultimate test of pitting intellect against emotion, and within that framework, it has been the healing salve for a broken spirituality.
- In this context, the company's famous ‘do no evil’ motto begins to appear like a salve for a guilty conscience.
- Thank God for post-modernism, the salve of the intellectual conscience.
- The airline threw well over a billion bonus miles at them as a salve, and most of them are still flying the ‘friendly’ skies one year later.
- It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
- Sanctions are a salve for our conscience, not a serious attempt to stop the murders.
- Despite the fact that many organizations are now addressing diversity, company initiatives are not strong enough salves for the wounds caused by decades of social inequality in the workplace.
- The Northern relief road, creating a link between the A591 and A6 north of Kendal, had been billed as a potential shot in the arm for Kendal's economy and a salve for traffic woes.
- Pierce admits to using food as a salve for stress, and after the birth of her son four and a half years ago, she gained nearly 70 pounds.
- Onisaburo's private counsel was a much-needed salve to soothe his inner turmoil.
- Insistent that small-scale peasant properties were the solution to Ireland's economic woes, Mill came to see them as the salve for wounded Irish nationalist sentiments as well.
- MUSIC SOOTHES all, acting as a salve, but for some it is something more.
- The win also provided some competitive salve for a US team that earlier in the day failed to qualify anyone for the 100m freestyle semi-finals for the first time in its Olympic history.
- What a relief, what a salve for my own anxiety, to have a president again who doesn't suffer from existential angst or malaise, or who doesn't show it if he does.
- Back in 1990, the city wanted his land for a municipal golf course that was supposedly going to provide a permanent salve for the city's financial problems.
verb salvsæv [with object]1Soothe (wounded pride or one's conscience) charity salves our conscience Example sentencesExamples - He felt it was the least he could do, and secretly hoped it would somehow salve his conscience.
- Making it an official day off salved my conscience a little.
- He will offer ‘second place’ and ‘survival’, two concepts not defined by the rule book, but which salve the ego for some of the players.
- He is aware that he can never undo what was done - Abner Easely will remain dead - but he wants to find some way of salving his spiritual wound.
- Putting ideological purity ahead of practical policy compromises may salve our consciences but when biotechnology is the issue the stakes become too high.
- They have not even the solace of big muscles and the solidarity of unions from which to construct their identities and with which to salve their bruised egos.
- I might even claim that welfare-state-ism can be traced to a desire to simply salve one's conscience.
- Some players do write and try to justify their dirty deeds, maybe to salve their own guilty conscience.
- Consciences may be salved by the doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest will in fact make everyone better off.
- The only major world figure not to come in person was the prime minister of Great Britain (too busy perhaps with salving his wounds after a narrow electoral victory that was less than glorious).
- After three days of recuperation in the ICU, I was released from the hospital, walking feebly and trying to salve my ego.
- Singing and dancing may bring pleasure to the public, charity concerts may salve guilty consciences and the world is definitely in need of some cheering up.
- A victory in the play-off final two years ago did salve some wounds, however, and the expected 400,000 windfall from Sky for the Newcastle game should heal a few more.
- Maybe if I got out of my house and increased my footprint locally, I could salve my consumerist conscience.
- The arrival of De Boer may have salved a few wounds at Rangers in midweek, but Celtic were also busy on the transfer front.
- The odd hour or two per week spent sitting in Christian meetings may salve our consciences, but will hardly prevail against the gates of hell.
- These protests have been about salving the consciences of many whose votes splintered the left and humiliated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's candidacy.
- Surely Claybourn isn't thinking of voting for a third-party candidate in order to salve his own political conscience.
- Since then we've donated to various causes to salve our guilt or conscience or out of sympathy.
- And it was alleged that a Labour councillor claimed mobile soup kitchens were run by ‘middle class do-gooders trying to salve their consciences’.
Synonyms soothe, lighten, alleviate, assuage, comfort, ease, allay, dull, mollify, mitigate, palliate 2archaic Apply salve to. the salved my cuts and stopped the bleeding Example sentencesExamples - In the spirit of pioneers, we're concocting our own remedies and salving our own wounds.
- They make plastics and polyester: the clothes we wear, the carpets we walk on, frames for our computers, seats to sit on, bottles to drink from and band-aids to salve our wounds.
- Then he carefully cleaned and salved the cuts and scrapes on my face and palms, kissing them lightly and whispering meaningless, soothing sounds to me all the while.
Origin Old English sealfe (noun), sealfian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zalf and German Salbe. quack from mid 16th century: ‘If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck.’ was the comment made by the US union leader Walter Reuther about the alleged communists investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. The quack of a duck, recorded from the mid 16th century, is just an imitation of the bird's characteristic sound. The kind of quack who dishonestly claims to have medical skills was originally a quacksalver, a 17th-century word from Dutch quacken ‘to talk foolishly’ and salf the same word as ‘salve’ (Old English) from a Germanic base meaning ‘clarified butter’.
verb salvsælv this gun was salved, having lain nearly 100 years below the sea archaic term for salvage Example sentencesExamples - More recently, 60 brass shell cases were salved from under a 5.5in gun which had been mounted on the stern.
Origin Early 18th century: back-formation from the noun salvage. nounsævsav 1An ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection. Example sentencesExamples - Other cuts and bruises were likewise administered a healing salve and from his skin I managed to scrub much of the soil and blood.
- These powerful immune-suppressing salves have become popular for hard-to-treat eczema, a condition characterized by red, itchy, inflamed skin.
- He looked at Lanfilar, who was helping an Olindu prepare a healing salve for the many battle wounds taken.
- After I stopped the bleeding I put a root extract and honey salve on it to protect it from infection and promote healing.
- Quickly I washed the wound clean and applied the salve before once more bandaging his leg.
- Rags were boiled for bandages and an assortment of ointments and salves were applied on Erik's skin to promote healing.
- Calendula helps to heal broken skin, and the oil in the salve creates a protective barrier that prevents mucous membranes from drying out.
- She treated the woman's wound as if it were from an arrow: applying salve, and binding the hole, but it did not help.
- Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
- After using the salve, she began to dress the wound.
- He wiped her foot again to clean away the blood, then taking the salve, he covered the wound and wrapped her foot.
- And as for you, Mr. Monk, I will get you some salve for those cuts.
- Then he deftly smeared some salve on the wound and wrapped it with a new bandage, taping it in place.
- After he was finished, the woman dressed his sore wounds with a cooling salve.
- Once the splint was in place, David continued his work and applied the salve he just made on all of the wounds that would require it.
- John Arderne was proudest of the remedies he devised for the battlefield and particularly a salve for arrow wounds that he called sang d' amor - in mediaeval French, the blood of love.
- She could rub salve on his open wounds later, she bandaged a few that were bleeding badly but then covered him in his blankets and stroked his forehead.
- She got the fire started and prepared some salve to cover his wound.
- He took stick-on bandages from the small first aid kit he carried and, rubbing some healing salve over the wounds, covered them with the bandages.
- Numair applied all of the salve for the bleeding that he dared, but Kefari's blood all but refused to fully clot.
Synonyms ointment, cream, balm, unction, unguent, balsam, pomade, rub, embrocation, emollient, liniment - 1.1 Something that is soothing or consoling for wounded feelings or an uneasy conscience.
the idea provided him with a salve for his guilt Example sentencesExamples - Despite the fact that many organizations are now addressing diversity, company initiatives are not strong enough salves for the wounds caused by decades of social inequality in the workplace.
- The win also provided some competitive salve for a US team that earlier in the day failed to qualify anyone for the 100m freestyle semi-finals for the first time in its Olympic history.
- Insistent that small-scale peasant properties were the solution to Ireland's economic woes, Mill came to see them as the salve for wounded Irish nationalist sentiments as well.
- If a writer of epic fantasy isn't willing to trust her imagination and her story - is afraid to let it matter - can a salve for the troubles that afflict us still be found in books?
- Back in 1990, the city wanted his land for a municipal golf course that was supposedly going to provide a permanent salve for the city's financial problems.
- Yet, no amount of salve could treat my conscience.
- In this context, the company's famous ‘do no evil’ motto begins to appear like a salve for a guilty conscience.
- So we obsessively analyze this epic Homerian battle, trying to find a moment of heroism, a brief glimpse to help salve our morally guilty wounds.
- Onisaburo's private counsel was a much-needed salve to soothe his inner turmoil.
- Paganism has proven to be the ultimate test of pitting intellect against emotion, and within that framework, it has been the healing salve for a broken spirituality.
- Thank God for post-modernism, the salve of the intellectual conscience.
- The answer is education - that great universal salve for all of the ills of humankind.
- What a relief, what a salve for my own anxiety, to have a president again who doesn't suffer from existential angst or malaise, or who doesn't show it if he does.
- It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
- Pierce admits to using food as a salve for stress, and after the birth of her son four and a half years ago, she gained nearly 70 pounds.
- Sanctions are a salve for our conscience, not a serious attempt to stop the murders.
- Plath's novel and its melancholy protagonist, whom I would later learn was a thinly veiled version of Plath herself, proved to be the perfect salve for my tortured adolescent mind.
- The airline threw well over a billion bonus miles at them as a salve, and most of them are still flying the ‘friendly’ skies one year later.
- The Northern relief road, creating a link between the A591 and A6 north of Kendal, had been billed as a potential shot in the arm for Kendal's economy and a salve for traffic woes.
- MUSIC SOOTHES all, acting as a salve, but for some it is something more.
verbsævsav [with object]1Soothe (wounded pride or one's conscience) charity salves our conscience Example sentencesExamples - Maybe if I got out of my house and increased my footprint locally, I could salve my consumerist conscience.
- I might even claim that welfare-state-ism can be traced to a desire to simply salve one's conscience.
- They have not even the solace of big muscles and the solidarity of unions from which to construct their identities and with which to salve their bruised egos.
- He felt it was the least he could do, and secretly hoped it would somehow salve his conscience.
- The odd hour or two per week spent sitting in Christian meetings may salve our consciences, but will hardly prevail against the gates of hell.
- Since then we've donated to various causes to salve our guilt or conscience or out of sympathy.
- Making it an official day off salved my conscience a little.
- These protests have been about salving the consciences of many whose votes splintered the left and humiliated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's candidacy.
- Surely Claybourn isn't thinking of voting for a third-party candidate in order to salve his own political conscience.
- Singing and dancing may bring pleasure to the public, charity concerts may salve guilty consciences and the world is definitely in need of some cheering up.
- He will offer ‘second place’ and ‘survival’, two concepts not defined by the rule book, but which salve the ego for some of the players.
- And it was alleged that a Labour councillor claimed mobile soup kitchens were run by ‘middle class do-gooders trying to salve their consciences’.
- The arrival of De Boer may have salved a few wounds at Rangers in midweek, but Celtic were also busy on the transfer front.
- Some players do write and try to justify their dirty deeds, maybe to salve their own guilty conscience.
- He is aware that he can never undo what was done - Abner Easely will remain dead - but he wants to find some way of salving his spiritual wound.
- A victory in the play-off final two years ago did salve some wounds, however, and the expected 400,000 windfall from Sky for the Newcastle game should heal a few more.
- Putting ideological purity ahead of practical policy compromises may salve our consciences but when biotechnology is the issue the stakes become too high.
- Consciences may be salved by the doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest will in fact make everyone better off.
- The only major world figure not to come in person was the prime minister of Great Britain (too busy perhaps with salving his wounds after a narrow electoral victory that was less than glorious).
- After three days of recuperation in the ICU, I was released from the hospital, walking feebly and trying to salve my ego.
Synonyms soothe, lighten, alleviate, assuage, comfort, ease, allay, dull, mollify, mitigate, palliate 2archaic Apply salve to. Example sentencesExamples - In the spirit of pioneers, we're concocting our own remedies and salving our own wounds.
- Then he carefully cleaned and salved the cuts and scrapes on my face and palms, kissing them lightly and whispering meaningless, soothing sounds to me all the while.
- They make plastics and polyester: the clothes we wear, the carpets we walk on, frames for our computers, seats to sit on, bottles to drink from and band-aids to salve our wounds.
Origin Old English sealfe (noun), sealfian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zalf and German Salbe. verbsælvsalv this gun was salved, having lain nearly 100 years below the sea archaic term for salvage Example sentencesExamples - More recently, 60 brass shell cases were salved from under a 5.5in gun which had been mounted on the stern.
Origin Early 18th century: back-formation from the noun salvage. |