bathe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.
Inflected forms:
form: bathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bathes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We do not bathe to make ourselves clean, but to keep clean, and for the sake of its health-giving and invigorating effects. Once a week a warm bath, at about 100°, may be used, with plenty of soap, in order to thoroughly cleanse the pores of the skin.
A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
gloss: To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.
gloss: To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.
The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.
All subtle thought, all curious fears,
⁠Borne down by gladness so complete,
⁠She bows, she bathes the Saviour’s feet
With costly spikenard and with tears.
At this sound, which she had not heard for twelve years, little Elizabeth felt her heart so affected that she could contain herself no longer, but throwing her arms about John's neck, she bathed his cheeks with her tears.
Vorpal, eupeptically bubbling greetings, bathed a sausage in a swimming plate of sauce.
gloss: To cover or surround.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
transitive
examples: The room was bathed in moonlight.
A dense fog bathed the city streets.
Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.
gloss: To sunbathe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The women bathed in the sun.
gloss: The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.
I do not feel disposed to ask any questions, but devote myself entirely to the Governoress, who takes me over to the bathing-house in her boat. I have had my bathe, and am strolling along the sands, waiting for the Countess.
Related words: bath
Derived words: batheable
bather
bathers
bathing suit
bebathe
dustbathe
embathe
firebathe
forbathe
imbathe
moonbathe
overbathe
rebathe
sandbathe
starbathe
sunbathe
sunbather
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