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salve

/sav, sahv/US // sæv, sɑv //UK // (sælv, sɑːv) //

膏药,疗法,疗程,疗效

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
    • : anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    salved, salv·ing.

    • : to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.

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Examples

  • Allowing restaurants to sell cocktails-to-go would be a much-needed salve for the beleaguered industry

  • I have tried CBD salves and THC spliffs, no beer and way too much of it.

  • Since 1919, Wahl’s products have expanded to include personal massagers, pet groomers, and other hair care salves, shampoos, and lotions.

  • This aromatic butternut squash and pear soup is a nourishing salve for chilly days

  • Washington needed to score to salve its nightmarish start and set up a second-half comeback.

  • Its readership expands in times when more of us need its particular brand of salve.

  • His only salve has been counting down the days until graduation.

  • It was comforting, a temporary salve, but we both agreed I should see someone more regularly in New York.

  • Then came remedies: the powder, the salve, the wondrous elixir.

  • With it, we can help salve the seething anger that the fearful mainstream senses in the streets.

  • For one minute he even contemplated holding the two up and taking enough to salve his hurt pride and his endangered reputation.

  • It was a device by which thousands have tried to salve their consciences, and to try to find an excuse for wrong-doing.

  • How eager they will then be to prove their confidence by exaggerated devotion, to salve their guilty conscience!

  • Well, I'll make the salve an' do the talkin'; Giz'll sort o' whoop things up a bit and Lut'er'll git cured.

  • Still, if trapped thus, they salve their consciences with the remark: The Christian had the sin, and I had the good dinner.