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Definition

a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

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anything that eases pain or anxiety; or the act of doing such

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

salve = something to reduce pain or anxiety

salve = a cream or liquid put on skin to make it feel better or heal

It was a miracle, everyone said, so that was the new name they gave Mother's recipe: after Dad's burn it was known as Miracle Salve.
Tara Westover -- Educated

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

To salve his loneliness in the years after the accident, he started unofficially "adopting" indigent Okinawan boys and girls, eventually taking fourteen of them under his wing, paying for the oldest to attend medical school in Philadelphia and another to study medicine in Japan.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

salve = make less painful

Or Sonja, who needed salve on her own maternal wounds.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

salve = something that eases pain

Miss Huey began to talk in a low, soothing voice, smoothing the salve on my temples and fitting the small electric buttons on either side of my head.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

salve = cream or liquid that is put onto skin

But then, for what salve it gives me, every man's a fool.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

salve = something that eases pain or anxiety

Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

With a bottle of peroxide and a can of salve I would doctor their wounds.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

salve = cream or liquid that is put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

He held up the head while Billy swabbed out the wound with weak carbolic acid salve.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

salve = a cream or liquid that is put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

Between that and the magic salve Grover used, my shoulder felt better within a couple of minutes.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin as a medicine

He smells like sweat and fresh air and mint, from the salve he sometimes uses to relax his sore muscles.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

salve = something that eases pain or anxiety

When she stopped, she had washed his hand with cool water and soothed him with warm hugs and wrapped with salve and bandages the place where the fire soldier had stabbed him.
Sharon M. Draper -- Forged by Fire

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

Still, I wondered whether skin grafts could have achieved what Mother had with her comfrey and lobelia salve.
Tara Westover -- Educated

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

Whenever he called, I always seemed to be needed somewhere to change a bandage or make salve.
Tara Westover -- Educated

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

I know they went through seventeen gallons of salve in the first two weeks, and that Mother was ordering gauze in bulk.
Tara Westover -- Educated

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

Mother smeared the salve over Dad's upper body twice a day.
Tara Westover -- Educated

salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal

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