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Bathe

//beɪð// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. British, colloquial

    "I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight."

  2. 2
    the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    cleanse the entire body wordnet
  3. 3
    To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. intransitive
  4. 4
    suffuse or envelope with something wordnet
  5. 5
    To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. transitive

    "We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time."

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  1. 6
    swim for pleasure or recreation wordnet
  2. 7
    To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. transitive

    "She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical."

  3. 8
    To cover or surround. figuratively, intransitive, transitive

    "The room was bathed in moonlight."

  4. 9
    To sunbathe. intransitive

    "The women bathed in the sun."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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