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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bathe
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a swimming/bathing cap
▪ A swimming cap will stop you getting your hair wet.
bask/bathe in the glory of sth (=enjoy the fame and admiration you get)
▪ Challenor basked in the glory of his achievement.
bathing cap
bathing costume
bathing suit
bathing trunks
clean/bathe a wound
▪ She finished cleaning the wound and began bandaging the arm.
sth is bathed in lightliterary (= something has a lot of light shining on it)
▪ The fields and woods were bathed in golden light.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ The mid-afternoon sun was still unseasonably warm, and there were children bathing in the sea.
face
▪ I bathed my face with water and felt hot fingers beginning to tickle my back.
▪ He bathed his face in the fountain of her body liquid, and filled his mouth to capacity.
▪ She soaped her neck and armpits, scrubbed her back with a loofah and bathed her face.
▪ You would not dream of not bathing, washing your face, or washing your hair.
▪ She took trouble with her hair, and bathed her face regularly in cold water before rubbing it well with the towel.
light
▪ Golden morning light bathed the apartment as she slipped into a gentle sleep.
▪ Inside, fresh flowers brighten every table and Deco-style light fixtures bathe the room in a soft copper glow.
▪ No golden light bathed the red brick of the house.
sunshine
▪ Below her window the courtyard was in deep shadow, but to her left the garden was bathed in new-minted sunshine.
▪ Ashley gazed out of the car window at the countryside which was bathed in September sunshine.
▪ The Markt was bathed in spring sunshine, and everywhere looked so clean and pristine as befitted the fine morning.
▪ As we spoke it was bathed in warm afternoon sunshine.
sweat
▪ I was bathed in a cold sweat.
▪ I get bathed in sweat with the least exertion.
▪ They make the skin crawl like it is on fire, even as it is bathed in sweat.
water
▪ Martha put him in a tub of hot water, and bathed his head and shoulders with a cloth.
▪ The water in which they bathed was salty, not fresh.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask/bathe in sb's/sth's (reflected) glory
▪ A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
▪ And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory. % % % Overreaction?
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
▪ She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
bathing/jogging etc suit
▪ A more natural line evolved as bathing suit and fabric technology was improved to push, pull and lift invisibly.
▪ Babur puts on his new bathing suit and shows off.
▪ I shower and lay out all seven bathing suits on the bed and try to picture myself in one in particular.
▪ Seeing Felix resignedly pick up his towel and bathing suit, Mabs and Tashie rushed behind a rock to change.
▪ She got into her old pink jogging suit and her sneakers.
▪ She was looking very pretty in her bathing suit, her hair still damp from swimming.
▪ There they were, those pretty young girls all in a row, wearing standardized bathing suits, glamour gowns and smiles.
▪ They have doctorates in education, and pace the halls in jogging suits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A nurse bathed her feet in medicine.
▪ Brenda bathed and changed the baby.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Jay would bathe in a glow of wonder that another human being could move her so.
▪ By most people's standards Marilyn Monroe was fairly uninhibited; bathing infrequently, and belching and farting with carefree abandon.
▪ Dozens of families lived in each building, shared toilets with neighbors and bathed in the kitchens.
▪ I have wrongly criticized you for bathing in the front hall.
▪ In the distance the pine-clad hills were bathed in a pale wash of greenish-purple light.
▪ Sunlight streamed in from the windows above the gallery, bathing the polished panels of the walls in a warm glow.
II.noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask/bathe in sb's/sth's (reflected) glory
▪ A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
▪ And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory. % % % Overreaction?
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
▪ She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She did not flinch when he suggested a bathe.
▪ Tomorrow a bathe in the cold north sea and a hack out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bathe

Bathe \Bathe\, v. i.

  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

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

Bathe

Bathe \Bathe\ (b[=a][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bathed (b[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing.] [OE. ba[eth]ien, AS. ba[eth]ian, fr. b[ae][eth] bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.]

  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 C[ae]sar'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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bathe

Old English baþian "to wash, lave, bathe" (transitive and intransitive), from root of bath (q.v.), with different vowel sound due to i-mutation. Related: Bathed; bathing.

Wiktionary
bathe

n. (context British colloquial English) The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. 2 (context intransitive English) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. 3 (context transitive English) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. 4 (context transitive English) To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. 5 (context figuratively transitive and intransitive English) To cover or surround.

WordNet
bathe

n. the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe"

bathe
  1. v. cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"

  2. suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight"

  3. clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day" [syn: bath]

Wikipedia
Bathe (surname)

Bathe (surname) may refer to:

  • John Bathe (disambiguation)
  • Walter Bathe
  • William Bathe

Usage examples of "bathe".

In the cold stream Deacon Rose bathed and performed his ablutions and meditations, while a much subdued Pryor saw to the horses.

Agatha bathed the babe while Galswinthe and Elspeth helped to rid Aelveva of the afterbirth, then cleansed her.

Just after sundown, as the Andes valleys were bathed in alpenglow, Daeman, Tom, and Siris freefaxed in, but they stayed only a few moments.

Many persons think because they daily bathe the face, neck, and hands, dress the hair becomingly and remove the dirt from their clothing that the height of cleanliness has been reached.

She woke early and stiff, and had made her way to the jacks and to the river to bathe before a bellow from Corporal Bosk brought the others out of their blankets.

Rivers and Brooks, there to bathe and cool himself, and often he drinks of the clear purls, as thinking by that, to quench his inward Caum, and scorching.

There I behelde a marueilous buildyng of a bathe eight square, and at euerye Exterior corner, there were doubled together twoo Pyles, in fashion of a Pyke, from the leuell of the foundation, the subiect Areobates Circumcinct and ribbed about.

Not farre of, there was a cleft in the earth, the which continually did cast foorth burning matter, and taking of this, and filling the bottome of the vessel, they did put certaine ginnes and sweet woods which made an inestimable suffumigation, as of the sweetest past, afterwardes closing the same, and putting downe the couer, both partes being holow, and the lipping and ribbing perforated and pearced through the transparent, Christal cleare and bright, they rendered a pleasant and diuers coulered light, by the which through the smal holes the bathes were lightened, and the heate stil incarcerated and interdicted.

She herself asked the question imploring Paralis not to delay the time of her regeneration, even though the Undine were lacking, since she could very well bathe herself.

I was but merely saying that when we reach the lodge wherein I am making my headquarters in this principality, you will be provided all your immediate needsservants to bathe you, the services of my barber, who also happens to be a fair to middling leech, cupper, and drawer of teeth, clothing and accouterments commensurate with your true rank and station, and, do you give me your parole, weapons.

The cloning department had worked overtime growing new batches of Emir embryos for the fetal neurons and glia they could supply and prepared appropriate annealing solutions of disaggregated cells with which the surgeons would bathe the central nervous system splices.

Bathe the surface with a solution of a drachm of quinine in a pint of whiskey.

His job was to clean the stud stalls and bathe the big male dragons: dust and fewmets, fewmets and dust.

In our bathing chamber, which was as big and as well-equipped as a Persian hammam, the maid helped Hui-sheng and me, together, to bathe several times over, until we felt clean of our encrustation of jungle, and then helped us dress.

No matter how much she entreated him and argued with him, he would not even let her go to the hammam to bathe.