salve
/sæ(l)v/ verb C2- To calm or assuage.
- To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
- To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
- To salvage.
He/she/it salves · Past salved · Past participle salved · -ing form salving
Verb forms
- Base form
- salve
- He/she/it
- salves
- Past
- salved
- Past participle
- salved
- -ing form
- salving
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This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
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