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bathed

[bath, bahth]

Origin

noun

a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.

a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.

a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.

a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.

a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.

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Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.

Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.

a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.

the container for such a preparation.

10.

a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.

11.

Metallurgy.

the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.

the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.

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the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

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to wash or soak in a bath.

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Bathed is always a great word to know.

So is bezoar. Does it mean:

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Idiom

14.

take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German bähen), Swedish basa to warm; pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-

Related forms

bath·less, adjective

Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

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

to wet; wash.

to moisten or suffuse with any liquid.

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

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

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

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verb (used without object)

to take a bath or sunbath.

to swim for pleasure.

to be covered or surrounded as if with water.

noun

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

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bath(i)en, Old English bathian, equivalent to bæth bath¹ + -ian infinitive suffix

Related forms

re·bathe, verb, -bathed, -bath·ing.

Can be confused: bath, bathe.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

bath

O.E. bæð "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from P.Gmc. *batham (cf. O.N. bað, M.Du. bat, Ger. bad), from PIE base *bhe- "to warm" (cf. L. fovere "to foment"). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England

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(O.E. Baðun) was so called from its hot springs.

bathe

O.E. baþian "to wash, lave, bathe" (trans. and intrans.), from root of bath (q.v.), with different vowel sound due to i-mutation.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

bath (bāth)
n. pl. baths (bā&phonth;z, bāths)