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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /beɪð/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-bathe.ogg


Etymology

Verb

  1. To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
  2. To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
  3. To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
  4. : She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
  5. : The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.
  6. : The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.
  7. To cover or surround.
  8. : The room was bathed in moonlight.
  9. : A dense fog bathed the city streets.
  10. To sunbathe.
  11. : The women bathed in the sun.


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Translations

Noun

  1. The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.
  2. : I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bathe \Bathe\, v. i.
1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe
in summer." --Waller.
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2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in
fiery floods." --Shak. "Bathe in the dimples of her
cheek." --Lloyd.
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3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bathe \Bathe\, n.
The immersion of the body in water; as, to take one's usual
bathe. --Edin. Rev.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bathe \Bathe\ (b[=a][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bathed
(b[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing.] [OE. ba[eth]ien,
AS. ba[eth]ian, fr. b[ae][eth] bath. See 1st Bath, and cf.
Bay to bathe.]
1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
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Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus.
--South.
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2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the
Alban mountain." --T. Arnold.
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3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
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And let us bathe our hands in C[ae]sar's blood.
--Shak.
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4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe
the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's
forehead with camphor.
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5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person
immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " --Tennyson. "The
bright sunshine bathing all the world." --Longfellow.
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WordNet bathe
n : the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good
bathe"
v 1: cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"
2: suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in
sunlight"
3: clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should
bathe every day" [syn: bath]
Moby Dictionary
Australian crawl , Finnish bath , Japanese bath , Russian bath ,
Swedish bath , Turkish bath , aquaplaning , aquatics , backstroke ,
balneation , bandage , baptize , bath , bathing , breaststroke , brew ,
butterfly , care for , cold shower , crawl , cure , diagnose , dive ,
diving , doctor , dog paddle , douche , douse , drench , drouk , fin ,
fishtail , flapper , flipper , float , floating , flush , flush out ,
flux , gargle , give care to , go in swimming , go in wading , heal ,
hip bath , holystone , hummum , imbrue , imbue , impregnate , infiltrate ,
infuse , inject , irrigate , lap , lather , launder , lave , leach , lip ,
lixiviate , macerate , massage , minister to , mop , mop up , natation ,
needle bath , nurse , operate on , percolate , permeate , physic ,
plaster , plunge bath , poultice , purge , remedy , rinse , rinse out ,
ritually immerse , rub , saturate , sauna , sauna bath , scour , scrub ,
scrub up , seethe , shampoo , shower , shower bath , sidestroke ,
sitz bath , skinny-dip , sluice , sluice out , soak , soap , sodden , sop ,
souse , splint , sponge , sponge bath , steep , strap , surfboarding ,
surfing , swab , sweat bath , swim , swimming , syringe , toivel ,
tread water , treading water , treat , tub , wade , wading , wash ,
wash out , wash up , waterlog , waterskiing , whirlpool bath


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