| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b th |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: bathed, bath·ing, bathes
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To take a bath. 2. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation. 3. To become immersed in or as if in liquid. 4. To sunbathe. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To immerse in liquid; wet. 2. To wash in a liquid. 3. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine. 4. To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English bathen, from Old English bathian. | | OTHER FORMS: | bath er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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