1. soothing or healing (a wound, pain, or troubled feelings)
Usage: present participle of ‘salve’
2. easing one’s conscience or guilt about something
Usage: often used with ‘conscience’

Examples

• The nurse was salving the patient’s wounds with antiseptic cream.
• She tried salving her guilt by volunteering at the shelter.
• The cool aloe vera gel was salving his sunburned skin.
• He spent hours salving his conscience after the argument.
• The mother was salving her child’s scraped knee.
• Reading helped in salving her emotional pain after the loss.