1. Wash or flow against
   "the waves laved the shore"
   - lap, wash 
2. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
   - wash 
3. Wash one's face and hands
   - wash up [N. Amer]

Derived forms: laved, laves, laving

See also: lavage, lavation

Type of: clean, cleanse, flow, freshen, freshen up, refresh, refreshen

Encyclopedia: Lave

• perestroika
• perfect
• perfect game
• perfect gas
• perfect number
• hidden tax
• hiddenite
• hiddenness
• hide
• hide and go seek
• hide-and-seek
• hideaway
• hidebound
• Hideki Yukawa
• hideous
• hideously
• hideousness
• hideout
• hider
• hidey-hole
• Hideyo Noguchi
• hiding
• hiding place
• hidrosis
• hidrotic