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salvage

salvage

29 5.5
An act of saving things from danger, like a ship or cargo
  • noun
  • /ˈsæl.vɪdʒ/
: salvamento
  • After the fire, the family's salvage allowed them to save many treasured items from their home.
  • salvage effort
  • salvage operations
  • salvage excavations

Now, when a painting is so thoroughly damaged by an unskilled hand, we must reassess what's possible and also start thinking of salvage.

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Examples

  • PHOTO: Stripped of much of its superstructure during salvage operations, the hull of the Arizona lies partly submerged in silt.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Your expedition is at the center of a storm of controversy over salvage rights and even ethics.

    Titanic (1997)

  • There is nothing but salvage, on that ship.

    Hunter Prey (2010)

  • I'll take the salvage yards.

    Den of Thieves (2018)

  • The scheme to cheat me out of my salvage.

    Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)

  • We go in for salvage at daybreak.

    Ultraviolet (2006)

  • South of town, Old Highway 91, there's a salvage yard that belongs to me.

    Nadine (1987)

  • The crew worked tirelessly to recover what they could from the shipwreck, a difficult salvage operation.

  • The salvage company was able to retrieve valuable artifacts from the sunken vessel.

Synonyms

rescue
vssalvage
702 1.0

An act of saving someone or something from danger

focuses on saving property or goods from damage instead of saving people
recovery
vssalvage
60 3.2

Getting back things that were lost or stolen

is about saving goods from damage or destruction rather than only regaining possession

Antonyms

destruction
764 3.0

Severe damage that makes something no longer exist or cannot be fixed

abandonment
18 3.6

Leaving someone or something and not coming back

How Complete

restoration
2 4.2
recovery
341 2.7
salvage
29 5.5
rescue
702 1.0

Surface Forms

salvage singular
salvages plural

Etymology

Salvage comes from the Latin root salv- meaning 'safe' or 'to save', and it is like the English word save. So a salvage operation is the work of saving people or things from danger, such as a ship or its cargo.