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bath

1  [bath, bahth] noun, plural baths  [bathz, bahthz, baths, bahths] , verb
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–noun
1. a washing or immersion of something, esp. the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
2. a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.
3. a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.
4. a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.
5. a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.
6. Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.
7. Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.
8. a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.
9. 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.
a. the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
b. the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
12. the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
13. to wash or soak in a bath.
—Idiom
14. take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE bæth; c. OFris beth, OS, ON bath, G Bad; < Gmc *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to OHG bājan (G bähen), Sw basa to warm; pre-Gmc *bheH- to warm, ptp. *bhH-to-

Related forms:
bathless, adjective
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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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bathe   (bāth)   
v.   bathed, bath·ing, bathes

v.   intr.

  1. To take a bath.

  2. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.

  3. To become immersed in or as if in liquid.

  4. To sunbathe.

v.   tr.

  1. To immerse in liquid; wet.

  2. To wash in a liquid.

  3. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine.

  4. 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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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 (O.E. Baðun) was so called from its hot springs. Bathtub gin first recorded 1930. Bathroom is first recorded 1780, originally a room with apparatus for bathing, now often euphemistic for lavatory.

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

Main Entry: 2bath
Function: transitive verb
British : to give a bath to bath intransitive senses
British : to takea bath

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

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

  1. The act of soaking or cleansing the body or any of its parts, as in water.

  2. The apparatus used in giving a bath.

  3. The fluid used to maintain the metabolic activities of an organism.

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