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bathe

UK/beɪð/ US/beð/ fairly common uk
verb (3) noun (1)

verb

1.

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”
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noun

1.

the act of swimming

  • “the Englishman said he had a good bathe”

Origin

From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.

Phrases

  • bathing suit

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