Word Meanings - LAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron. (more info) laver, L. lavare, akin to luere to wash, Gr. Ablution, Deluge,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAVE)

• Wash
• Lave
• cleanse
• bathe
• rinse
• absterge

Related words: (words related to LAVE)

• ABSTERGENT
  Serving to cleanse, detergent.
• BATHE
  1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. 2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And
• RINSER
  One who, or that which, rinses.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• BATHER
  One who bathes.
• RINSE
  1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. 2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• ABSTERGE
  To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. Quincy.
• BATHETIC
  Having the character of bathos.
• IMBATHE
  To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
• FORINSECAL
  Foreign; alien. Bp. Burnet.
• FORBATHE
  To bathe.
• INTRINSE
  Tightly drawn; or intricate. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose. Shak.
• EMBATHE
  To bathe; to imbathe.