Salve
noun
A substance you put on a wound or sore skin to heal or soothe it.
She used a herbal salve on her dry skin.
Often appears as...
- apply salve
- healing salve
verb
To soothe or heal something that's hurting or causing discomfort.
A warm drink can salve a sore throat.
Often appears as...
- salve the pain
- salve the wound
noun
Something intended to soothe or heal a difficult situation or pain.
The company's donation was a salve to the community after the accident.
Often appears as...
- salve to the situation
- salve for the pain
noun
A substance you put on a wound or sore skin to heal or soothe it.
She used a herbal salve on her dry skin.
Often appears as...
- apply salve
- healing salve
verb
To soothe or heal something that's hurting or causing discomfort.
A warm drink can salve a sore throat.
Often appears as...
- salve the pain
- salve the wound
noun
Something intended to soothe or heal a difficult situation or pain.
The company's donation was a salve to the community after the accident.
Often appears as...
- salve to the situation
- salve for the pain
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used in medical or health settings to describe healing products.
The nurse applied a salve to the burn.
Pro Tip 2/3Topical Application
Salve is a substance applied on the skin, not taken orally.
Remember, the salve goes on the rash, not in your mouth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Medicine
Though medical, salves can have natural or herbal ingredients.
Her grandmother made a salve from garden herbs.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used in medical or health settings to describe healing products.
The nurse applied a salve to the burn.
Pro Tip 2/3Topical Application
Salve is a substance applied on the skin, not taken orally.
Remember, the salve goes on the rash, not in your mouth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Medicine
Though medical, salves can have natural or herbal ingredients.
Her grandmother made a salve from garden herbs.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used in medical or health settings to describe healing products.
The nurse applied a salve to the burn.
Pro Tip 2/3Topical Application
Salve is a substance applied on the skin, not taken orally.
Remember, the salve goes on the rash, not in your mouth.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Medicine
Though medical, salves can have natural or herbal ingredients.
Her grandmother made a salve from garden herbs.
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Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste. And in an attempt to reintroduce me to sanctity, my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want. I decided to be a boy.
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Taboo? Scarification PIPE...
stayed with her son her husband couldn't take it I went away I was afraid to see my child leading to fight infection couse Anka covers Philippe's wounds with a salve made from the leaves of the
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A brief history of...
a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment. This brown powder could be mixed into drinks, made into salves or eaten straight up.
Video examples
Lee Mokobe: A powerful...
and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste. And in an attempt to reintroduce me to sanctity, my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want. I decided to be a boy.
Video examples
Taboo? Scarification PIPE...
stayed with her son her husband couldn't take it I went away I was afraid to see my child leading to fight infection couse Anka covers Philippe's wounds with a salve made from the leaves of the
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A brief history of...
a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment. This brown powder could be mixed into drinks, made into salves or eaten straight up.
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Rachel Simmons
American Author
A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.
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Nir Eyal
American Author
What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.
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Tariq Ramadan
Swiss Writer
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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Rosa Parks
American Activist
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
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Sheri L. Dew
American Author
In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.
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Roy Barnes
American Politician
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
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Ellie Bamber
English Actress
I always have Chanel lip salve with me, a sheet mask for the plane, and extra moisturizer. I like to use iS Clinical Moisturizer, luxe eye mask, and drink water.
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Bobby Bones
American Entertainer
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.
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Charles Churchill
English Poet
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Quote examples
Rachel Simmons
American Author
A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?
Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.
Quote examples
Nir Eyal
American Author
What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.
Quote examples
Tariq Ramadan
Swiss Writer
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Quote examples
Rosa Parks
American Activist
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
Quote examples
Sheri L. Dew
American Author
In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.
Quote examples
Roy Barnes
American Politician
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Quote examples
Ellie Bamber
English Actress
I always have Chanel lip salve with me, a sheet mask for the plane, and extra moisturizer. I like to use iS Clinical Moisturizer, luxe eye mask, and drink water.
Quote examples
Bobby Bones
American Entertainer
The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.
Quote examples
Charles Churchill
English Poet
Patience is sorrow's salve.
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