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To make wet by soaking or dousing in water
“Bathe the chicken in the sauce and return it to a platter or transfer it to individual plates.”
To soak or wipe gently with liquid to clean or soothe
“Bathe the wound three or four times a day in a carbolic lotion of one-half ounce carbolic acid mixed with one pint of soft water.”
To clean oneself (or someone else) by immersion in water or using water
“No one ever taught me how to actually bathe a baby!”
To swim or spend time in a body of water, typically for pleasure
“Then all the monkeys came to bathe, and as the hyena saw them bathe in the lake, he began to feel hungry.”
To flow against or along
“Here it turns more to the eastward toward the banks of Newfoundland, thus allowing a cold current from the north to bathe the shores of Canada and the United States.”
To suffuse or envelop in something
“Tim stepped through into the light and allowed its warmth to bathe him.”
To illuminate with light
“The cathedral ceiling had skylights that would bathe the room in sunlight during the day.”
To fill, infuse or pervade with something or a certain quality
To rid of dirt or impurities
Plural for an act or spell of swimming or spending time in the water
“Coming back to Mooney Falls tired but triumphant at the end of the day, we had a last bathe in that pool and scampered up the cliff like mice.”
Plural for an act or process of immersing and washing one's body in the water
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