salvage
Speech parts
1. salvage - Noun
2. salvage - Verb
4. Salvage - Proper noun
Meaning
The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved.
Savage.
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
Salvage Something From Every Setback.