verb
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To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
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To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
verb
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To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
example
to lap a piece of cloth
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To wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
example
to lap a bandage around a finger
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To envelop, enfold
example
lapped in luxury
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To wind around
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To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
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One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
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To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
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To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
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The boats lap; the edges lap.
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To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
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To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
verb
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To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
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Don't lap your soup like that, you look like a dog.
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(of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
Examples of lapping in a Sentence
When she walked back through the dairy, Brutus was lapping water.
Her eyes returned to Jonny, who was lapping up what was left of the dead woman's blood.
Rhyn gasped and struggled to sit. Kiki's still body lay a few feet from him, the ocean lapping at his brother's feet. The Caribbean night was humid and warm, and the moon large over head.
Could you hear the gulls, the clink of the cubes and the waves lapping the shore?
Most enjoy the gentle lapping sensations and the feel of cool water.
Aside from the infrequent sound of a passing car on the avenue, only the murmur of unseen waves lapping at the sand broke the stillness.
It has its own furnished balcony overlooking the river, from which to sip wine and relax to the sound of lapping water.
Glorious wrap-around balcony for lapping up the sun or shade in the heart of this gastronomic region favored by a certain British Prime Minister.
The process of lapping makes the heatsink base smooth to a near mirror finish, which improves heat conductivity.
The implication has been that Bis has benefitted from being a cultural outsider, sitting on the sidelines lapping everything up.
Us is an almost traditional love song, with strings lapping at its pop melody.
Can't you almost feel the sun on your shoulders and the waves gently lapping at your feet?
I sailed the ship under a starlit sky, quiet except for the sea lapping on the side of the ship.
You close the kimono by pulling both sides together in the middle, lapping one side over the other and securing the kimono with a sash.
Do you prefer a bikini clad woman in a nitty gritty urban scene or a tranquil beach with gently lapping waves?
Turned on and starving, she gingerly crawled across the bed and settled beside him on her belly, pausing guiltily before lapping up the bubbles of blood.
Xander kissed her neck, lapping up the blood with a quick flick of his tongue.
For these seven extra laps you will be lapping without a ' pace car ' at a rev limit of 5000 rpm.
You sink back to sleep, lulled by the sound of the lapping sea and the twittering birds.
On the 14th ands 5th, attacking sharply on the Russian front and lapping round both its flanks, Oku won an important and handsome victory, at a cost of 1200 men out of 35,000 engaged, while the Russians, with a loss of at least 3600 out of about 25,000 engaged, retired in disorder.
Farther north in Montana, beyond the gorge of the Missouri river, the structure of the Front Range is altogether different; it is here the carved residual of a great mass of moderately bent Palaeozoic strata, overthrust eastward upon the Mesozoic strata of the plains; instead of exposing the oldest rocks along the axis and the youngest rocks low down on the flanks, the younger rocks of the northern range follow its axis, and the oldest rocks outcrop along its eastern flanks, where they override the much younger strata of the plains; the harder strata, instead of lapping on the mountain flanks in great slab-like masses, as in the Bighorns, form out-facing scarps, which retreat into the mountain interior where they are cut down by outfiowing streams.