Usually means: Wash or bathe something gently.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. lave: Merriam-Webster
  2. lave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lave, lave: Wordnik
  7. lave: Wiktionary
  8. lave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lave: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lave, lave: Dictionary.com
  12. lave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lave: Rhymezone
  16. Lave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. LAVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. lave: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Lave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lave: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lave: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lave: The Folk File
  2. L.A.ve, Lave: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See laved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lave)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To bathe or wash (someone or something).
verb:  Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
verb:  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.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
verb:  To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
verb:  Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) 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.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
verb:  To surround as if with water.
verb:  Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
noun:  An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.
noun:  (rare, also figurative) The sea.
noun:  That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest.
noun:  (rare) A relict, a widow.
adjective:  (obsolete) Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Of ears: to droop, to hang down.

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