salve
verb/sælv/, /sɑːv/
/sæv/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they salve | /sælv/, /sɑːv/ /sæv/ |
| he / she / it salves | /sælvz/, /sɑːvz/ /sævz/ |
| past simple salved | /sælvd/, /sɑːvd/ /sævd/ |
| past participle salved | /sælvd/, /sɑːvd/ /sævd/ |
| -ing form salving | /ˈsælvɪŋ/, /ˈsɑːvɪŋ/ /ˈsævɪŋ/ |
- salve your conscience to do something that makes you feel less guilty
- He took them presents to salve his conscience.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySalve is used with these nouns as the object:- conscience
Word OriginOld English sealfe (noun), sealfian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zalf and German Salbe.
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