Salving

Word SALVING
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Definitions and meanings of "Salving"

What do we mean by salving?

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.

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The word "salving" in example sentences

He bought the wreck of the great steamship Gavonne for a song, and in salving it achieved the impossible and cleaned up a quarter of a million. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gavonne for a song, and in salving it achieved the impossible and cleaned up a quarter of a million. ❋ Unknown (1912)

He was responsible for the salving of the Doncaster -- bought in at auction for ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once a group has been deprived of its lands or its votes or its living -- or even its lives -- exhibiting its art can feel like conscience-salving condescension. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

But mostly excuses are about salving wounds; apart from nodding sympathetically, nobody pays much attention. ❋ John Paul Newport (2011)

I know what scares him: If I die first there'll be no salving surreality between him and his conscience. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sometimes she dreamed of all the little pills, waiting in their bottles to perform their angelic functions: curing, salving, unblocking, repairing. ❋ Jonathan Sapers (2010)

It was in fact a plate from the side of the New Jersey, a steamer which had recently been wrecked outside the Golden Gate, and in the salving of which the Mary Rebecca had taken part. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Democracy and human rights shall go on doing duty in many a speech or scheme by which Western leaders, especially the big ones, shall go on salving their conscience and in the meanwhile they shall do everything to support and aid tyrannical regimes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Riding around the plantation will henceforth be good enough for me, or perhaps salving another Martha; but the bushmen of Guadalcanar need never worry for fear that I shall visit them again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I figured out that it was less about the man himself, and more about salving my hurting ego. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This was crystallized by a leading officer of a liberal organization called the American Union of Associationists, devoted to salving the social wounds brought on by industrialization. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

This was Sen. Byrd's way of salving his conscience for his previous connection with the KKK. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I believe Edwards is concerned with his own career, Sen. Kennedy with his legacy, Sen. Byrd with salving his conscious because of past mistakes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Teamwork, camaraderie, sportsmanship – these were the important virtues that we established as we whiled away hours chasing bad passes, re-taping wooden sticks and salving the wounds that inevitably came from losing a tight game in the final moments. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some of my colleagues see universities as the enemy and see themselves as saving (or at least salving) those students who either have been or will be mistreated by the cold, uncaring world of 4-year institutions. ❋ Prof. De Breeze (2008)

This really was rather fun, salving my conscience while driving a sex symbol crazy. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2010)

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