I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lip salve
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our goal is to provide a salve for consumers' fears.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Can smell the graphite salve , like the smell in a garage.
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Her face was always carefully rouged, her mouth daubed generously with salve .
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No touchdowns for the Cowboys, but $ 35 million is a pretty good salve for the old ego.
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Send gloves, if you can, and some salve .
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That would be a neat salve for trade friction.
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The acceptance of the idea provided him with a curious salve for his guilt.
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The graphite salve has iron filings in it, temples scratching.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conscience
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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We are there to salve their conscience and to administer their guilt money.
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Perhaps, he thought, it helps to salve her own conscience .
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But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something, and she had not been for two weeks now.
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But do not let us allow their punishment to salve our consciences .
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It was to salve her conscience , she thought, and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something, and she had not been for two weeks now.
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Converse had salved his ear in vaseline and bandaged it with cotton and gauze.
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However the appointment of staff to fill the new posts meant that our overall complement was little changed and consciences were salved.
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I was powerless to salve his guilt, but I felt my own.
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Often you can salve their indignation and solve this problem by rewording the sentence.
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Perhaps, he thought, it helps to salve her own conscience.
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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We are there to salve their conscience and to administer their guilt money.