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salvage

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To recover or save something still useful from loss, damage, or destruction.

Before dismantling the shed, they hoped to salvage the brass hinges.

Dictionary practice example.

Two theater students hoped to salvage a painted screen from the pile of broken scenery.