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salve

noun as in ointment for relief of pain or illness

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Allowing restaurants to sell cocktails-to-go would be a much-needed salve for the beleaguered industry

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I have tried CBD salves and THC spliffs, no beer and way too much of it.

Since 1919, Wahl’s products have expanded to include personal massagers, pet groomers, and other hair care salves, shampoos, and lotions.

This aromatic butternut squash and pear soup is a nourishing salve for chilly days

Washington needed to score to salve its nightmarish start and set up a second-half comeback.

Its readership expands in times when more of us need its particular brand of salve.

His only salve has been counting down the days until graduation.

It was comforting, a temporary salve, but we both agreed I should see someone more regularly in New York.

Then came remedies: the powder, the salve, the wondrous elixir.

With it, we can help salve the seething anger that the fearful mainstream senses in the streets.

For one minute he even contemplated holding the two up and taking enough to salve his hurt pride and his endangered reputation.

It was a device by which thousands have tried to salve their consciences, and to try to find an excuse for wrong-doing.

How eager they will then be to prove their confidence by exaggerated devotion, to salve their guilty conscience!

Well, I'll make the salve an' do the talkin'; Giz'll sort o' whoop things up a bit and Lut'er'll git cured.

Still, if trapped thus, they salve their consciences with the remark: The Christian had the sin, and I had the good dinner.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to salve, such as: balm, lotion, aid, cerate, counterirritant, and cream.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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