(salvages, salvaging, salvaged)
1.
If something is salvaged, someone manages to save it, for example from a ship that has sunk, or from a building that has been damaged.
The team's first task was to decide what equipment could be salvaged...
The investigators studied flight recorders salvaged from the wreckage.
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2.
Salvage is the act of salvaging things from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building.
The salvage operation went on.
...the cost of salvage.
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3.
The salvage from somewhere such as a damaged ship or building is the things that are saved from it.
They climbed up on the rock with their salvage.
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4.
If you manage to salvage a difficult situation, you manage to get something useful from it so that it is not a complete failure.
Officials tried to salvage the situation...
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5.
If you salvage something such as your pride or your reputation, you manage to keep it even though it seems likely you will lose it, or you get it back it after losing it.
We definitely wanted to salvage some pride for British tennis...
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