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Bathe   /beɪð/   Listen
verb
Bathe  v. t.  (past & past part. bathed; pres. part. bathing)  
1.
To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. "Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus."
2.
To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain."
3.
To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. "And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood."
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. " "The bright sunshine bathing all the world."


Bathe  v. i.  
1.
To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer."
2.
To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek."
3.
To bask in the sun. (Obs.)


noun
Bathe  n.  The immersion of the body in water; as, to take one's usual bathe.





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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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