BATHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bathe mean? 

• BATHE (noun)
  The noun BATHE has 1 sense:

1. the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation

  Familiarity information: BATHE used as a noun is very rare.

• BATHE (verb)
  The verb BATHE has 3 senses:

1. cleanse the entire body

2. suffuse or envelope with something

3. swim for pleasure or recreation

  Familiarity information: BATHE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of swimming for pleasure or recreation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the Englishman said he had a good bathe

Hypernyms ("bathe" is a kind of...):

swim; swimming (the act of swimming)

Derivation:

bathe (swim for pleasure or recreation)

bather (a person who travels through the water by swimming)

• BATHE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bathe    ... he / she / it bathes   
Past simple: bathed   
Past participle: bathed   
-ing form: bathing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cleanse the entire body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

bathe daily

Hypernyms (to "bathe" is one way to...):

clean; cleanse (clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bathe"):

shower (take a shower; wash one's body in the shower)

foment (bathe with warm water or medicated lotions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

They bathe
They bathe themselves

Derivation:

bather (a person who takes a bath)

bathing (the act of washing yourself (or another person))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffuse or envelope with something

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

veal bathed in a rich creamy sauce

Hypernyms (to "bathe" is one way to...):

enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Swim for pleasure or recreation

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "bathe" is one way to...):

swim (travel through water)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bathe"):

skinny-dip (bathe in the nude)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

bathe (the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation)

bather (a person who travels through the water by swimming)

 Context examples 

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering found that bathing 1-2 hours before bedtime in water of about 104-109 degrees Fahrenheit can significantly improve your sleep.

(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Both individuals made large gains in feeding, dressing, bathing, and grooming.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

They may need help with dressing, bathing, eating, or using the bathroom, but they don't need full-time nursing care.

(Assisted Living, Administration on Aging)

A question about bathing or dressing yourself.

(Bathing or Dressing Yourself, NCI Thesaurus)

When they bathed developing basilar papillas in a solution containing Bmp7, they found that all the hair cells—even those at the high-frequency end—developed characteristics of low-frequency-sensing hair cells.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Many red dwarf stars, including Proxima Centauri, are subject to flares that occasionally bathe their orbiting planets in deadly ultraviolet and X-ray radiation.

(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)

When it was daylight, the girl bathed her face in a little rippling brook, and soon after they all started toward the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A little sea-bathing would set me up forever.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

One certainty is that Europa is bathed in radiation created by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

(NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt, NASA)

All of the planets are thought to be tidally locked to their star, which means they rotate once per orbit so that one side is constantly bathed in daylight.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)