Salving
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verb.
Present participle of
salve
.
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adjective.
having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
Word Usage
"He bought the wreck of the great steamship Gavonne for a song, and in salving it achieved the impossible and cleaned up a quarter of a million."
Equivalent
soft
verb-stem
salve