Definition of "lave" in Englisch

verb

1. To bathe or wash (someone or something).

2. Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.

3. 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.

4. To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.

5. To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.

6. Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).

7. 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.

8. To bathe or wash.

9. To surround as if with water.

10. Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.

noun

1. An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.

2. (rare, also figurative) The sea.

noun

1. That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest.

2. (rare) A relict, a widow.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of ears: to droop, to hang down.