salving
- v save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- v apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
- s having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
- Last week to Albany, at the summons of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, went New York State's prison experts to consider methods of salving the itching New York penal shin.
- Iran, through the United Nations' reluctance to intervene, won a dubious victory over Britain, salving pride but refining no oil.
- By bringing Christianity to a new conformation with the world and salving the wounds that have torn it for centuries, the Pope has helped vastly to recapture the Christian sense of .