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lavage

lavage noun: a washing.

Noun

lavage (countable and uncountable, plural lavages)

  1. A washing.
  2. A washing of a hollow organ.

Verb

lavage (third-person singular simple present lavages, present participle lavaging, simple past and past participle lavaged)

  1. To wash a hollow organ

lavage meaning in Tamil

lavage in Tamil

குடல்பகுதி சுத்தம் செய்யும் முறை, வயிறு, கழுவல், நீராட்டல், நீரேற்றல்

Forms of lavage

Noun
plurallavages
Verb
third-person singular presentlavages
present participlelavaging
past participlelavaged
pastlavaged

Origin of lavage

Borrowed from French lavage.

Words formed from lavage

Questions about lavage

What does lavage mean?
Lavage means a washing.
What is lavage in Tamil?
Lavage in Tamil is குடல்பகுதி சுத்தம் செய்யும் முறை, வயிறு, கழுவல். See Lavage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lavage?
Lavage can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of lavage?
The plural of lavage is lavages.

Words near lavage in the dictionary

  1. lavaflow
  2. lavaflows
  3. lavaform
  4. lavagate
  5. lavagates
  6. lavage
  7. lavageable
  8. lavaged
  9. lavages
  10. lavaging
  11. laval

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lavage (page history and authors); lavage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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