salve

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. noun Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

   Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.

3. verb To calm or assuage.
4. verb To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
5. verb To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
6. verb To salvage.
7. verb To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
8. verb To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

Similar words

unguent ointment salvage relieve balm save salute defuse de-escalate alleviate

Often followed by

regina for to the and his of on their

Word family

salved salves salving salvor salvors