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# salve

«salve» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft cream or ointment rubbed on a cut, sore or burn to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (salves); verb (salve, salves, salved, salving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft cream or ointment rubbed on a cut, sore or burn to heal it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/#m1)

2) (old use) To rub a wound with such a cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and myths, a healing ointment given by a wise person or physician to cure a wound

### examples

- She put a salve on the cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/#x1)
- He anointed the wound with a healing salve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/#x2)
- The physician applied his salve to her eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «salve» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/salve/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.