Definition of "salved" [salved]

• Simple past tense and past participle of salve. (verb)

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• "However, he must be a man of means, as he has given her a charming flat, beautifully decorated with water-colours which the Colonel salved from the French château in the early days -- these army fellows had all the chances."
• "For short-term political ends, and what looks like personal pique, NZ is undermining an independent nation's system of checks and balances, and right to free speech, while seemingly threatening to withdraw aid if bruised NZ egos are not salved."
• "And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche de mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks."