verb / noun
bathe
BAYTH/beɪð/
To immerse or surround with liquid.
She bathes her forearms with water and a soft cloth.
Etymology
Old English baþian meant to wash or take a bath and shared its source with bath. It covered both washing oneself and washing someone else, just as the modern verb does.
In context
There was no running water. There was no way to bathe. The guys were up there for a month at a time. They never even got out of their clothes.
More examples
- Warm evening light bathes the garden.
- The children bathed in the shallow lake.
- We enjoyed a brief bathe before returning to shore.
Forms
bathe · bathes · bathed · bathing