Synonyms of the word

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.

balm

• n. Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of…
• n. A plant or tree yielding such substance.
• n. Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
• n. (figuratively) Something soothing.
• n. Any of various aromatic plants of the genus Melissa, such as lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) or bee balm.
• v. (archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
• v. (figuratively) To soothe; to mitigate.

curative

• adj. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
• n. A substance that acts as a cure.

cure

• n. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
• n. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
• n. A process of solidification or gelling.
• n. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure…
• n. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
• n. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
• n. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
• v. (transitive) To restore to health.
• v. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
• v. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
• v. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
• v. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
• v. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

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.

medicate

• v. To prescribe or administer medication.

medicine

• n. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
• n. A treatment or cure.
• n. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
• n. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
• n. Ritual Native American magic used by a medicine man to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting,…
• n. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act…
• n. (obsolete) black magic, superstition.
• n. (obsolete) A philtre or love potion.
• n. (obsolete) A physician.
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.
• v. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.

ointment

• n. (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment…

redress

• v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
• v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
• v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
• n. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
• n. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification;…
• n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
• v. To dress again.
• v. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
• n. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

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.

remediation

• n. An action or process of remedying a situation.

remedy

• n. Something that corrects or counteracts.
• n. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
• n. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
• v. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

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.

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.

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.

therapeutic

• adj. Of, or relating to therapy.
• adj. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
• n. (medicine) A therapeutic agent.

unction

• n. A salve or ointment.
• n. A religious or ceremonial anointing.
• n. A balm or something that soothes.
• n. A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
• n. Divine or sanctifying grace.

unguent

• n. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.