Salve vs Wound - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between salve and wound

is that salve is while wound is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin or wound can be (wind).

As a noun wound is

an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

salve

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Any thing or action that soothes or heals.

Derived terms

* (l)

Verb

(salv)

To calm or assuage.

To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

* Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :

I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."

To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

* Spenser

But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.

* Milton

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

To salvage.

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

(salv)

(obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

(obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems

He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

References

Etymology 3

(etyl) (lena)

Interjection

(en interjection)

hail; a greeting

Verb

(salv)

To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.

* Spenser

By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

Anagrams

* ----

wound

English

Etymology 1

Noun from (etyl) wund, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:

The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

* Shakespeare

Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

* 1883:

I went below, and did what I could for my wound ; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, etc.

It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Synonyms

* (injury) injury, lesion * (sense, something that offends a person's feelings) slight, slur, insult * See also

Derived terms

* dirty wound * entry wound * exit wound * flesh wound * rub salt in the wound * suck one's wounds * time heals all wounds

Verb

(en verb)

To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

To hurt (a person's feelings).

The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

Synonyms

* (injure) hurt, injure * offend

Etymology 2

See (Etymology 2)

Verb

(head)

(wind)

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