1 [VN] to wash sth with water, especially a part of your body:
Bathe the wound and apply a clean dressing.
2 (AmE) = BATH:
[VN] Have you bathed the baby yet? * [V] I bathe every day. -< BATH
3 [V] (old-fashioned) to go swimming in the sea, a river, etc. for enjoyment
seealsoSUNBATHE
4 [VN] ~ sth (in sth) (literary) to fill or cover sth with light:
A full moon bathed the countryside in a silver light.
noun [sing.] (BrE, formal) an act of swimming in the sea, a river, etc:
to go for a bathe
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is bathe a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bathe is tagged as verb.
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