Dictionary Entry
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
- 1interjection
Hail!
- 2transitive verb
To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
- 3noun
An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
- 4noun
A soothing remedy or antidote.
- 5noun
To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
- 6noun
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.
- 7transitive/intransitive verb
To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
- 8noun
anything that remedies or heals or soothes
"he needed a salve for his conscience"
- 9noun
semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- 10verb
apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
- 11verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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