Dictionary Entry
bathe
bathe is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
- 2transitive verb
To lave; to wet.
- 3transitive verb
To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
- 6intransitive verb
To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
- 7intransitive verb
To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
- 8intransitive verb
To bask in the sun.
- 9noun
The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
- 10noun
the act of swimming
"the Englishman said he had a good bathe"
- 11verb
cleanse the entire body
"bathe daily"
- 12verb
clean one's body by immersion into water
"The child should bathe every day"
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- 13verb
suffuse with or as if with light
"The room was bathed in sunlight"
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