bathe. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

bathe

PRONUNCIATION:	bth
VERB:	Inflected forms: bathed, bath·ing, bathes
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To take a bath. 2. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation. 3. To become immersed in or as if in liquid. 4. To sunbathe.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To immerse in liquid; wet. 2. To wash in a liquid. 3. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine. 4. To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English bathen, from Old English bathian.
OTHER FORMS:	bather —NOUN


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