bathe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of swimming
    • the Englishman said he had a good bathe
  2. verb cleanse the entire body
    • bathe daily
  3. verb suffuse with or as if with light
    • The room was bathed in sunlight
  4. verb clean one's body by immersion into water
    bath.
    • The child should bathe every day

WordNet

Bathe transitive verb
Etymology
OE. baien, AS. baian, fr. bæ bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bathed (); present participle & verbal noun Bathing
Definitions
  1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
    Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South.
  2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.
  3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
    And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.
  4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
  5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.
Bathe intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." Waller.
  2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." Shak. "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek." Lloyd.
  3. To bask in the sun. Obs. Chaucer.
Bathe noun
Definitions
  1. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev.

Webster 1913