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UK
/sˈælvɪdʒ/
]
[ US /ˈsæɫvədʒ, ˈsæɫvɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈsæɫvədʒ, ˈsæɫvɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
- property or goods saved from damage or destruction
- the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
VERB
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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collect discarded material
She scavenged the garbage cans for food
How To Use salvage In A Sentence
- I've assured and reassured him a hundred times that this isn't true, but then, there's only so much you can say to salvage a hurt ego.
- We sat in the leafy, overgrown garden, where wild herbs and flowers spiced the air and the mismatched tables were topped with salvaged mosaic tiles. Smithsonian Mag
- The wounded pride of a fifteen-year-old boy had to be salvaged someway.
- All sorts of treasures have been found in the pile of waste, which is why the council receives income from the salvage contractor to help provide funding for a recycling advisor at the site.
- LIP is one of the treatments to salvage vision in patients with incomplete ophthalmic artery occlusion if no contraindications for thrombolysis exist.
- In this care study I have endeavoured to show some aspects of the unique role of the nurse described by Salvage.
- Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment, the first of the season at the third attempt.
- On its ground floor, executive director Amy Tobin showed me some salvaged-wood tables, benches, and a lustrously smooth black-acacia countertop created by Paul Discoe, an ordained Buddhist priest whose Oakland-based company, Live Edge, utilizes lumber from urban street trees that have been cut down due to storm damage, disease, and other reasons. Anneli Rufus: Rainwater Toilets and Slag: Touring Berkeley's Greenest Building
- Fuel and tankers became so scarce in the spring of 1942 that oil was scavenged from the unsalvageable battleships still resting on the bottom of Battleship Row.
- The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.