Meaning & use
Lave
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To wash or bathe something, or, of water, to flow against or wash over something; a chiefly literary or archaic term.
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The poem describes waves that lave the rocky shore at dawn.
She let the cool stream lave her tired feet after the long hike.
A note on using this word
"Lave" survives mainly in poetic and literary writing today, having largely been replaced by "wash" and "bathe" in everyday speech.
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