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adjective

Definition of salvagednext
as in reclaimed

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salvaged

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verb

past tense of salvage
as in rescued
to remove (something) from a place of danger or harm Nothing could be salvaged from the shipwreck.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for salvaged
  1. rescued
  2. saved
  3. recovered
  4. retrieved
Verb
  • In November 2022, a 28-year-old man who fell overboard from a Carnival Valor cruise ship was rescued off of Louisiana's southeast coast after treading water for nearly 20 hours.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In-ho shot Jun-ho, who fell off a cliff but survived and was rescued by a fisherman.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of rescued
Adjective
  • All data stored within 1Password is fully encrypted, including vault names, website URLs associated with saved passwords, and the passwords themselves, of course.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • County stumbled upon the video after seeing it in his saved folder.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 6 June 2024
Definition of saved
Verb
  • Lake trout and burbot populations have increased, including a 2024 pronouncement that lake trout in Lake Superior have fully recovered.
    Paul A. Smith, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Vikings won 10-straight games before losing in Week 18, and the Rams recovered from a 1-4 start to win 9-of-11 games before resting starters including QB Matthew Stafford in a Week 18 loss.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of recovered
Verb
  • Harb hired Curran to get the loan out of collections and sent back to the SBA, but the agency still hasn’t retrieved the full payment that Harb had set up more than three years earlier, records show.
    Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • She was later retrieved and treated for smoke inhalation, per the fire brigade.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of retrieved
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