(~s, salvaging, ~d)
1.
If something is ~d, someone manages to save it, for example from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged.
The team’s first task was to decide what equipment could be ~d...
The investigators studied flight recorders ~d from the wreckage.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed
2.
Salvage is the act of salvaging things from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building.
The ~ operation went on.
...the cost of ~.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
3.
The ~ from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building is the things that are saved from it.
They climbed up on the rock with their ~.
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4.
If you manage to ~ a difficult situation, you manage to get something useful from it so that it is not a complete failure.
Officials tried to ~ the situation...
VERB: V n
5.
If you ~ something such as your pride or your reputation, you manage to keep it even though it seems likely you will lose it, or you get it back it after losing it.
We definitely wanted to ~ some pride for British tennis...
VERB: V n