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Bathe   /beɪð/   Listen
Bathe

verb
(past & past part. bathed; pres. part. bathing)
1.
Cleanse the entire body.
2.
Suffuse with or as if with light.
3.
Clean one's body by immersion into water.  Synonym: bath.
noun
1.
The act of swimming.



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"Bathe" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stream, is it not delicious to sit at the brink of a wild, impetuous torrent, to gaze on its white foam and breaking waves, till you can almost feel their gush in every nerve and fibre, and can bathe your very soul in them. And while you slowly smoke your pipe of purest tobacco, the sands of the desert, and their burning sun, rise again before you, when you prayed for even the shadow of a cloud on your way. The banks are ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... started up, and said to myself, I should like to bathe and cleanse myself from the squalor produced by my late hard life and by Mrs. Herne's drow. I wonder if there is any harm in bathing on the Sabbath day. I will ask Winifred when she comes home; in the meantime I will bathe, provided I can ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... landsman, whose only knowledge of the water was in an occasional bathe, or in a river steamer; and his first attempt at placing the oars in the rowlocks resulted in one falling overboard, while he helplessly grasped the other; and ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... there a fortnight, by which time the inflammation had pretty well subsided. No one could be kinder than the old woman was. She used to bathe my arm by the hour, and she fed ...
— No Surrender! - A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee • G. A. Henty
... leave the world of dreams Where shapes and shadows melt away; Bathe in salvation's cooling streams, And soar ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna


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