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Noun lapping has 1 sense
- imbrication, overlapping, lapping - covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
--1 is a kind of covering
Verb lap has 5 senses
- lap - lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
--1 is one way to lie
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- lick, lap - pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
--2 is one way to stroke, fondle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- lap, swish, swosh, swoosh - move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
--3 is one way to sound, go
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- lap, lap up, lick - take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
--4 is one way to drink, imbibe
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- lave, lap, wash - wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
--5 is one way to flow
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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