Antonyms for salve
sæv, sɑvsalve

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. salve

   Antonyms:
   wound, hurt, irritate, injure, aggravate, scarify

   Synonyms:
   heal, cure, mollify, redress, remedy, mend, relieve

Matched Categories

1. • Medicate
   • Medicine

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salvenoun

   semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

   Synonyms:
   smarm, unction, cream, ointment, balm, emollient, unctuousness, oleaginousness, unguent, smarminess, oiliness, inunction, fulsomeness

2. salveverb

   anything that remedies or heals or soothes

   "he needed a salve for his conscience"

   Synonyms:
   unguent, unction, balm, ointment

3. salvage, salve, relieve, saveverb

   save from ruin, destruction, or harm

   Synonyms:
   spare, pull through, economize, carry through, make unnecessary, ease, salvage, save, lay aside, economise, still, unbosom, take over, redeem, allay, hold open, keep, save up, exempt, let off, palliate, excuse, relieve, assuage, write, preserve, deliver, remedy, alleviate, keep open, free, lighten, bring through, scavenge

4. salveverb

   apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing

   Synonyms:
   relieve, salvage, save

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1. salvenoun

   Synonyms:
   ointment, cerate, embrocation, emollient, balm, unguent

2. salveverb

   Synonyms:
   anoint, embrocate, heal, remedy, cure

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. salve

   Synonyms:
   Ointment, see there
   

How to use salve in a sentence?

1. Lisa Haisha:

   Laughter is a salve. It’s the best medicine around. Poet Pablo Neruda called it “the language of the soul.” I know this to be a universal truth because I’ve seen this play out in every culture around the world. People find respite and release in laughter.

2. James Kennedy:

   They’ve been using cannabis in poultice and salves for years, my aunt’s grandmother had a marijuana salve they used 60 years ago in Mexico. My goal wasn’t just to put cannabis in a salve, but to create a modern product.

3. Jonathan Miller:

   Over the past few years, we've passed the affordability threshold, with the loss of the ability to comfortably use all the amenities that characterize living in a city -- restaurants, retail, bars, all the cultural events that were at your beck and call as a resident of Manhattan -- people are questioning it. Those were the salve on affordability.

4. Attorney Clark Brewster:

   I think that will shed the light most prominently on the issue here for us, the whole basis for listing betamethasone is because it’s injected into a joint and they want you not to inject the joints too close to the race, so the whole substantive basis is out the window if it’s a salve, and it can be proven scientifically and empirically to be the salve.

5. Unknown:

   Prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

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