salved

Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.

Some involve personal lapses, which may be salved with a show of humility and contrition.

If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.

After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.

In Greek there was the phenomenon, but the phenomena were malleable—they could be ‘saved’ or ‘salved’; while facts are stubborn.