Associations to the word «Lave»

Wiktionary

LAVE, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
LAVE, verb. (transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
LAVE, verb. (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
LAVE, verb. (intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
LAVE, verb. (intransitive) (dialectal) To hang or flap down.
LAVE, verb. (ambitransitive) (archaic) To wash.
LAVE, noun. (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.

Dictionary definition

LAVE, verb. Wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore".
LAVE, verb. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
LAVE, verb. Wash one's face and hands; "She freshened up in the bathroom".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King