salvage
sal vuhj
- n property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- n the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
- n the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- v save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- v collect discarded or refused material
- With the risks involved in a salvage operation so high, it is perhaps best to leave the Kursk where it is, quietly rusting and quietly leaking radiation into the ocean for .
- There were all kinds of Democratic flotsam jetsam washing about in the Republican flood a lot of it eminently salvageable.
- In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be .