Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/August 24

1. (transitive)
   1. To bathe or wash (someone or something).
   2. Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
   3. 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.
   4. (figurative)
      1. To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
      2. To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
      3. Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
   5. (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.
2. (intransitive)
   1. (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
   2. (figurative)
      1. To surround as if with water.
      2. Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.

lave n (archaic except literary, poetic)

1. An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.
2. (rare, also figurative) The sea.