Crossword clues for salved
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salve \Salve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salved; p. pr. & vb. n. Salving.] [AS. sealfian to anoint. See Salve, n.]
To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
--Shak.-
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds.
--Spenser.What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: salve)
Usage examples of "salved".
Half-trained to follow in his father’s mechanical engineering specialty, F’mar had salved Fulmar Senior’s shock at the idea of his son’s pursuing an entirely different life’s work by taking charge of all the Weyr’s mechanicals.
My professional pride was salved and who cares about money when three meals a day are taken care of?
He had not forgiven her for the clubbing she had once given him, nor had he salved the wounds of his egotistical pride.
He felt sorely at a disadvantage, for he was likely to incur Elizabeth's wrath when he had all but salved it, but Nicholas had been his friend for many years, and that one's safety was paramount in his mind.
He'd had one numbing humiliation at the hands of a girl (the humiliation not salved by his grandmother's evident satisfaction in it) followed by four years of being between women, his romantic life joked about in Arden bars, then eleven months of marriage and the rest of his life without adult feminine companionship.
With that reassuring thought, I salved my conscience and went on to the smithy.