batheverb/beɪð/

• 1

  To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.

  • 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.
• 2

  To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.

  • 'I feel very guilty,' she said sitting down beside him. 'But I've been bathing every day while you've been lying here.'
• 3

  To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.

  • We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.
• 4

  To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.

  • She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
  • The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.
• 5

  To cover or surround.

  • The room was bathed in moonlight.
  • A dense fog bathed the city streets.
• 6

  To sunbathe.

  • The women bathed in the sun.

bathenoun/beɪð/

• 1

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

  • 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.