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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To wash; bathe.
  2. v. To lap or wash against.
  3. v. To refresh or soothe as if by washing: "The quiet and the cool laved her” ( Edna Ferber).
  4. v. Archaic To wash oneself.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
  2. To draw, as water; drink in.
  3. To give bountifully; lavish.
  4. To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  5. To hang or flap down. Compare lave-eared.
  6. To wash; bathe.
  7. To wash one's self; bathe.
  8. To serve for washing or bathing; wash or flow as against something.
  9. n. What is left; the remainder; the rest.
  10. n. The act of washing or laving.
  11. n. The sea.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic or dialectal The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  2. v. transitive, obsolete To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
  3. v. transitive To draw, as water; drink in.
  4. v. transitive To give bountifully; lavish.
  5. v. intransitive To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  6. v. intransitive, dialectal To hang or flap down.
  7. v. transitive, archaic To wash.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To wash; to bathe.
  2. v. To bathe; to wash one's self.
  3. v. obsolete To lade, dip, or pour out.
  4. n. Scot. The remainder; others.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. wash one's face and hands
  2. v. cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
  3. v. wash or flow against

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English laven ("to wash, pour out, stream"), from Old English lafian, ġelafian ("to pour water on, refresh, wash"), from Proto-Germanic *labōnan (“to refresh, strengthen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lōbh- (“to strengthen oneself, rest”). Cognate with Old Saxon lavōn (Dutch laven, "to refresh, revive"), Old High German labōn, labian (German laben, "to wash, refresh"), Ancient Greek λαπάζειν, ἀλαπάζειν (lapázein, "to empty out, cleanse; to rest, refresh"). The sense of "wash" in West Germanic was reinforced due to association with unrelated Latin lavare ("to wash"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English laven, from Old English gelafian and from Old French laver, both from Latin lavāre; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. wash
  1. bathe
  1. others
  1. dip
  1. bail

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. refreshen
  1. freshen up
  1. freshen
  1. refresh
  1. flow

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. enveloppe
  2. daddie
  3. kape
  4. soide
  1. biggin
  2. lenger
  3. doot
  4. sommet
  1. baud
  2. 'cross
  3. heid
  4. drinkin
  1. breccia
  2. nowt
  3. melle
  4. pareille
  1. witho
  2. muraille
  3. eglise
  4. dure

rhymes (28)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Dave
  2. Wave
  3. aftershave
  4. behave
  5. brave
  1. cave
  2. concave
  3. crave
  4. deprave
  5. engrave
  1. enslave
  2. fave
  3. forgave
  4. gave
  5. grave
  1. knave
  2. misbehave
  3. nave
  4. pave
  5. quave
  1. rave
  2. save
  3. shave
  4. shortwave
  5. slave
  1. stave
  2. waive
  3. wave

reverse dictionary (9)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lafe
  1. lave-lugged
  1. lave
  1. launder
  1. bathe
  1. belave
  1. overlave
  1. sluice
  1. wash

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