salvage

Other forms of salvage

plural

salvages·

past tense

salvaged·

present participle

salvaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about salvage

What does salvage mean?

salvage means "property or goods saved from damage or destruction". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salvage?

salvage has 2 syllables: sal-vage. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsælvədʒ/.

What is another word for salvage?

Close synonyms include salve, relieve, save, scavenge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salvage a common word?

salvage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.