salvable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- salvability noun
- salvableness noun
- salvably adverb
Etymology
Origin of salvable
1660–70; < Late Latin salv ( āre ) to save + -able
Example Sentences
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The cans in the galley floor did not look in any way salvable and even in the locker there were some that were badly rusted and some that wore an ominous bulbed look.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
It proceeds beyond reaction to collapse in a hopeless case; it stops this side of that in a salvable one.
From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.
It looks very much as if she were salvable.
From The Boys of '98 by Otis, James
There was less action of the liver than usually indicates a salvable case, and no irritation of the lowest intestines.
From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.
"I am glad to hear it," answered Donal: any news from an outer world of yet salvable humanity was welcome as summer to a land of ice.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
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