To place in a bath; immerse in water or other fluid, for cleanliness, health, or pleasure.To apply water or other liquid to with a sponge, cloth, or the like, generally for therapeutic purposes.To water moisten, or suffuse with any liquid.To immerse in or surround with anything analogous to water: as, bathed in sunlight.In zoology, to tint; tinge in a uniform manner, giving the appearance of one color seen through another: as, black bathed with purple, brown bathed with rosy, etc.To take a bath; be in water or other liquid; go into water to bathe one's self.To be immersed or surrounded as if with water.n. The act of bathing; the immersion of the body in water: as, to take one's usual bathe. Edinburgh Rev.