Synonyms of the word salvage


SALVAGEBELONGINGS - COLLECT - COMMODITY - DELIVER - DELIVERANCE - DELIVERY - GARNER - GATHER - GOOD - HOLDING - PROPERTY - RELIEVE - RESCUE - SALVE - SAVE - SAVING - SCAVENGE

salvage

  • n. The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
  • n. The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
  • n. The compensation paid to the rescuers.
  • n. The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
  • n. Anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted.
  • n. Damaged.
  • v. (transitive) Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue.
  • v. (transitive) Of discarded goods, to put to use.
  • v. (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
  • n. Obsolete spelling of savage.
  • n. (Philippine English) summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
  • v. (Philippine English) To perform summary execution.
  • v. (Philippine English) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

belongings

  • n. plural of belonging; possessions or personal items.

collect

  • v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
  • v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
  • v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
  • v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
  • v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
  • adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
  • adv. With payment due from the recipient.
  • n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

commodity

  • n. (obsolete) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
  • n. Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
  • n. Something useful or valuable.
  • n. (obsolete) Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.
  • n. (economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in…
  • n. (marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded…
  • n. (Marxism) Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.

deliver

  • v. To set free.
  • v. (process) To do with birth.
  • v. To free from or disburden of anything.
  • v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
  • v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
  • v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
  • v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
  • v. To discover; to show.
  • v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
  • v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

deliverance

  • n. Act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered.
  • n. Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

garner

  • n. A granary; a store of grain.
  • n. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  • v. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  • v. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  • v. (often figuratively) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to…
  • v. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

gather

  • v. To collect; normally separate things.
  • v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
  • v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
  • v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
  • v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
  • v. To gain; to win.
  • n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
  • n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
  • n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
  • n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

good

  • adj. (of people).
  • adj. (of capabilities).
  • adj. (of properties and qualities).
  • adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
  • adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
  • adj. (of quantities).
  • interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
  • adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
  • n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
  • n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  • n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
  • n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
  • v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  • v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

holding

  • n. Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
  • n. A determination of law made by a court.
  • n. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
  • n. (obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
  • n. (obsolete) Logic; consistency.
  • n. (obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
  • n. (in texts about Russia, nonstandard) A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation…
  • v. present participle of hold.

property

  • n. Something that is owned.
  • n. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  • n. Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  • n. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  • n. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
  • n. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  • n. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or…
  • n. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
  • n. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
  • v. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
  • v. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.

relieve

  • v. To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or…
  • v. To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
  • v. To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
  • v. To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
  • v. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
  • v. (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
  • v. (law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
  • v. To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
  • v. To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
  • v. (military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
  • v. (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
  • v. (reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.

rescue

  • v. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  • v. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  • v. To recover forcibly.
  • v. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
  • v. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
  • v. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
  • n. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  • n. A liberation, freeing.
  • n. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
  • n. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
  • n. A rescuee.

salve

  • n. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  • n. Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
  • v. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
  • v. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  • v. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  • v. To salvage.
  • v. (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon);…
  • v. (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  • v. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
  • interj. hail; a greeting.
  • v. (transitive) To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.

save

  • n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
  • n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
  • n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
  • n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
  • n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
  • v. To put aside, to avoid.
  • prep. Except; with the exception of.
  • conj. (dated) unless; except.

saving

  • n. A reduction in cost or expenditure.
  • n. (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has…
  • n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  • n. (obsolete) exception; reservation.
  • v. present participle of save.
  • adj. (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
  • adj. Preserving; rescuing.
  • adj. Thrifty; frugal.
  • adj. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
  • adj. Making reservation or exception.
  • adj. (in compound adjectives) relating to making a saving: e.g. labour-saving, energy-saving light bulbs.
  • prep. With the exception of; except; save.
  • prep. Without disrespect to.

scavenge

  • v. (transitive) to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for…
  • v. (transitive) to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing…
  • v. (transitive) to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in…
  • v. (intransitive) to feed on carrion or refuse.

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