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Have you slaved your flash drive or are you still salving?
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salve

[salv]

NOUN

salves (plural noun)

1. an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection.

   "the wound should be washed with water and then a salve applied" · "he doctored their hurts with some strong-smelling salve"

   synonyms:

   ointment · cream · balm · unction · unguent · balsam · pomade · rub · embrocation · emollient · liniment

   • something that is soothing or consoling for wounded feelings or an uneasy conscience.
     "the idea provided him with a salve for his guilt"

VERB

salves (third person present) · salved (past tense) · salved (past participle) · salving (present participle)

1. soothe (wounded pride or one's conscience).

   "charity salves our conscience"

   synonyms:

   soothe · lighten · alleviate · assuage · comfort · ease · allay · dull · mollify · mitigate · palliate
2. archaic

   apply salve to.

   "they salved my cuts and stopped the bleeding"

ORIGIN

Old English sealfe (noun), sealfian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zalf and German Salbe.