Bathe: Definition and part of speech

Bathe

  1. n. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one’s usual bathe.
  2. v. t. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
  3. v. t. To lave; to wet.
  4. v. t. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
  5. v. t. 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.
  6. v. t. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
  7. v. i. To bathe one’s self; to take a bath or baths.
  8. v. i. To immerse or cover one’s self, as in a bath.
  9. v. i. To bask in the sun.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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