Word Direct Answers

What does "bathe" mean?

Bathe: To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.
  4. 5.To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." Waller.
  5. 6.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.
  6. 7.To bask in the sun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  7. 8.The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev.

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