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dampen, moisten, wet, lap, lip, bask, douse, envelop, foment, immerse, irrigate, permeate

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bathe

[beyth]

verb, bathed, bath⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to immerse (all or part of the body) in water or some other liquid, for cleansing, refreshment, etc.

2.	to wet; wash.

3.	to moisten or suffuse with any liquid.

4.	to apply water or other liquid to, with a sponge, cloth, etc.: to bathe a wound.

5.	to wash over or against, as by the action of the sea, a river, etc.: incoming tides bathing the coral reef.

6.	to cover or surround: a shaft of sunlight bathing the room; a morning fog bathing the city.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to take a bath or sunbath.

8.	to swim for pleasure.

9.	to be covered or surrounded as if with water.

–noun

10.	British. the act of bathing, esp. in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME bath(i)en, OE bathian, equiv. to bæth bath ¹ + -ian inf. suffix

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Language Translation for : bathe

Spanish:

bañar; limpiar,

German:

baden,

Japanese:

浸す

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bathe   (bāth) Pronunciation Key
v.   bathed, bath·ing, bathes

v.   intr.

To take a bath.
To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.
To become immersed in or as if in liquid.
To sunbathe.

v. tr.

To immerse in liquid; wet.
To wash in a liquid.
To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine.
To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight.

[Middle English bathen, from Old English bathian.]
bath'er n.

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bathe

O.E. baþian, from root of bath (q.v.), with different vowel sound due to i-mutation.

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bathe
noun
1.	the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe"
verb
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"

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Main Entry: ¹bathe
Pronunciation: 'bAth
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: bathed;bath·ing
transitive senses
1 : to wash in a liquid (as water)
2 : to apply water or a liquid medicament to <bathe the eye with warm water> bathe intransitivesenses
: to take a bath

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Main Entry: ²bathe
Function: noun
British : the act or action of bathing :

BATH

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Bathe

Bathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bathed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing.] [OE. ba?ien, AS. ba?ian, fr. b[ae]? bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.]

1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. --South.

2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." --T. Arnold.

3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

And let us bathe our hands in C[ae]sar's blood. --Shak.

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.

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.

Bathe

Bathe\, v. i. 1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." --Waller.

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.

3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Bathe

Bathe\, n. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. --Edin. Rev.