salve

salve is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as interjection, transitive verb, noun, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hail! Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. interjection. Hail!
2. transitive verb. To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
3. noun. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
4. noun. A soothing remedy or antidote.
5. noun. To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
6. noun. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
7. transitive/intransitive verb. To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
8. noun. anything that remedies or heals or soothes

   "he needed a salve for his conscience"

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

   Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent

10. verb. apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
11. verb. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

    Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save

Synonyms

balm, ointment, unction, unguent, relieve, salvage, save

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in salve:

laves, levas, selva, slave, vales, valse, veals

Common word forms

salved, salver, salves, salving

Words from these letters

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