Bathe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To take a bath.
  • verb-intransitive. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.
  • verb-intransitive. To become immersed in or as if in liquid.
  • verb-intransitive. To sunbathe.
  • v. To immerse in liquid; wet.
  • v. To wash in a liquid.
  • v. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine.
  • v. To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
  • v. To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
  • v. To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
  • v. To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
  • v. (transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
  • v. To sunbathe.
  • n. The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
  • v. To lave; to wet.
  • v. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
  • v. To apply water or some liquid medicament to.
  • v. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
  • verb-intransitive. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
  • verb-intransitive. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
  • verb-intransitive. To bask in the sun.
  • n. The immersion of the body in water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. clean one's body by immersion into water
  • v. suffuse with or as if with light
  • v. cleanse the entire body
  • n. the act of swimming
  • Verb Form
    bathed    bathes    bathing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    enclose    wrap    enfold    enwrap    envelop    swim    swimming   
    Form
    sunbather    bathers    sunbathe    bather   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lave    wet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    lathe    nathe    rathe    swathe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bath    swim    traveling    boating    dine    wash    outdoor    laundry    yachting    shower