Definition of Bathe

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Definition of Bathe

Bathe

To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.

To lave; to wet.

To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

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.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.

To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.

To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.

To bask in the sun.

The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.

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Bathe Quotations

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
Ethel Waters

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
C. S. Forester

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.
George Grey

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
Mandy Patinkin

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
Stevie Smith

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker

Bathe Translations

bathe in Danish is bade
bathe in Dutch is in bad doen, baden, wassen
bathe in French is baignade, baignez, baignent, baignons, baigner
bathe in German is baden, baden, waschen
bathe in Italian is fanno il bagno
bathe in Portuguese is banhe, banhar-se

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