salve

Plural: salves

Noun

• semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
• anything that remedies or heals or soothes
  • "he needed a salve for his conscience"
• An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
• Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Verb

Verb Forms: salved, salving, salves

• To soothe or remedy, often emotionally or mentally.
• save from ruin, destruction, or harm
• apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
• 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.
• To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
• To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
• To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
• To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

Intj

• Hail; a greeting.

Examples

• A well-placed SALVE on the Scrabble board can soothe the sting of a previous challenge.

Synonyms

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

Anagrams of salve