[
US
/ˈɫeɪv/
]
[ UK /lˈeɪv/ ]
[ UK /lˈeɪv/ ]
VERB
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wash one's face and hands
She freshened up in the bathroom - cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
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wash or flow against
the waves laved the shore
How To Use lave In A Sentence
- On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
- He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale enclave within Houston.
- I am for _meddling with slavery everywhere_ -- _attacking it by night and by day, in season and out of season_ (no, it can never be out of season) -- in order to _effect its overthrow_. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
- Although the majority of slaves lived and died in bondage, the intelligent and enterprising slave lived in the hope of eventually buying his freedom.
- Whether you live in the suburbs or in the vital enclaves of a Little India, you are a part of America and American life.
- The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo.
- The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
- Why is that man a slave to his genes?
- And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
- Such a man or woman is slave to his or her social position and wealth.