Lave

Quick meaning: Lave is a verb meaning To bathe or wash (someone or something).

Meaning

To bathe or wash (someone or something).

More Meanings

1. Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
2. To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
3. To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
4. Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
5. Followed by out or up: to draw or scoop (water) out of something with a bucket, scoop, etc.; specifically, to bail (water) out of a boat.
6. To bathe or wash.
7. Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.

Example Sentences

VVith Nectar pure his oozy Lock's he laves.

[F]rom my vveary'd limbs I lave / The foul pollution of the briny vvave: […]

Thanks be to God! He laveth the thirsty land! The waters gather; they rush along; they are lifting their voices.

[M]y houſe vvithin the City / Is richly furniſhed vvith plate and gold, / Baſons and evvers to laue her dainty hands: […]

Word Forms

• laves
• laving
• laved
• lavest
• lavedst
• laveth

Synonyms for lave

Depending on context, synonyms include residue, leavings, leftover, ort, relic, remainder.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wash, rinse, bathe, cleanse, launder, depart.

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