(bathes, bathing, bathed)
1.
If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe. (mainly BRIT FORMAL)
The police have warned the city's inhabitants not to bathe in the polluted river.
VERB: V prep/adv, also V
•
Bathe is also a noun.
Fifty soldiers were taking an early morning bathe in a nearby lake.
N-SING: usu a N
• bathing
Nude bathing is not allowed.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
When you bathe, you have a bath. (AM; also BRIT FORMAL)
At least 60% of us now bathe or shower once a day.
= bath
VERB: V
3.
If you bathe someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. (AM; also BRIT FORMAL)
Back home, Shirley plays with, feeds and bathes the baby.
= bath
VERB: V n
4.
If you bathe a part of your body or a wound, you wash it gently or soak it in a liquid.
Bathe the infected area in a salt solution...
VERB: V n
5.
If a place is bathed in light, it is covered with light, especially a gentle, pleasant light.
The arena was bathed in warm sunshine...
The lamp behind him seems to bathe him in warmth.
VERB: be V-ed in n, V n in n, also V n
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