Definition of "salve" in İngilizce

noun

1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

   • Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.

verb

1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.

2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

4. (dated) To salvage.

verb

1. (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

2. (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

interjection

1. Hail; a greeting.

verb

1. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.