Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. / (transitive) To draw, as water; drink in. / (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

lave

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

lave

IPA(Pronunciation)

/leɪv/

obsolete transitive intransitive dialectal

(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. / (transitive) To draw, as water; drink in. / (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞、古語）水などの液体を注ぎ出す、投げ出す、排出する / （他動詞）水をくみ出す、飲み入れる / （他動詞）惜しみなく豊富に与える、贈る

What is this buttons?

Each morning the gardeners lave the temple steps with water drawn from the river.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

毎朝、庭師たちは川の水で寺の石段を洗い流す。

Sense（1）

(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.

From that fair flood which Ilion's wall did lave

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.

The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.

Sense（4）

(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.

Sense（5）

(intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.

Sense（6）

(transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash.

In her chaste current oft the goddess laves.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（7）

To lick.

laves

（ present singular third-person ）

laving

（ participle present ）

laved

（ participle past ）

laved

（ past ）

Login / Sign up

　

Download the app!

DiQt

Free

★★★★★★★★★★