Bathe

Definitions: Bathe

Bathe

Noun

1. The act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe".

Verb

1. Cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily".

2. Suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight".

3. Clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should take a bath every day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bathe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Bathe

Insertion

Imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak; (water); dip, plunge.

Plunge

Verb: plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe;(water).

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Bathe

And I want you to bathe him thoroughly. (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

We don't bathe her in the hall. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr)

Listen, come and have a bathe. (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.)

It's a desolate island haunted by death. They'll put Pres in an open shed with a hundred others. You must be there with him day and night, watchin' every breath he draws. You must bathe him, keep him clean, give him drugs, fight for his food and water. (Jezebel; writing credit: Owen Davis; Clements Ripley)

Jonathan Moxon your are under arrest for not being naked with some sophomore chick who wants to bathe you with her tongue, now take off your clothes and get in the car. (Varsity Blues; writing credit: W. Peter Iliff)

I want to bathe with you in the sea ("Truly Madly Deeply"; performing artist: Savage Garden)

The Way French Bathing Girls Bathe (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• To Bathe In The Golden River Of Love (reference)

• Wake Up Your Body: How to Massage and Bathe Your Way to Health and Good Looks at Home, (reference)

• William Bathe, S.J., 1564-1614: A Pioneer in Linguistics (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series Iii: Studies in t (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Music for Babies to Bathe, Crawl, and Sleep To.... [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Schistosomiasis warning signs (Do not bathe yourself here. There is Bilharzia). Puerto Rico, 1954.Credit: CDC.

[Nurse instructing father on how to bathe his child].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Nurse instructing parents on how to bathe their baby].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Mrs. Latham teaches the mothers how to bathe an infant].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

King Edward the VII of England tapping man in bathrobe kneeling in front of him while attendants wait to bathe him.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Being one day abroad with my protector, the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Bathe when you wake up to help reduce the egg contamination. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Prisoners were confined to cells without ventilation and not allowed regular opportunities to bathe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bathe": bathe in blood ♦ bathe in gold ♦ sea bathe ♦ sun bathe ♦ take sun bathe. Additional references.

Ending with "bathe": sun-bathe.

Albanian

banjë (ablution, bath, bathroom, closet, conveniences, powder room, privy, rest room, retiring room, toilet, washroom, water closet), bëj banjë (wash), larje (bathing, cleansing, cleanup, development, lavement, scour, wash, washing), laj (clear, do, elutriate, flush, liquidate, pay up, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, take out, wash), lahem (lave, pay off, square accounts with smb., swim in, wash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غمر بالماء (drown, submergence), ‏غسل (irrigate, irrigation, launder, lave, lotion, rinse, scrub, swill, wash, washing), ‏إغتسل (bath, lave, wash up), ‏إستحم (shower, swim, tub), ‏بلل (bedew, dabble, damp, dampness, drench, moisten, moistening, soaking, sodden, wet, wetness). (various references)

Asturian

bañase (to bathe). (various references)

Blackfoot

ssiistsi (to bathe). (various references)

Bulgarian 

къпя (wash), къпане (bath, bathing), окъпвам (wash), мия (clean, do, lave, lick, mop, scour, wash, wash up), промивам (irrigate, lave, pan, scour, sluice, wash), потапям (douse, plunge, steep, whelm). (various references)

Catalan

banyar-se (have a bath). (various references)

Cebuano

maligo (to bathe). (various references)

Chamorro

para man ómak (to bathe). (various references)

Chinese 

沐浴 (Bathed, Bathing), 沐 (cleanse, receive favors), 澣 (cleanse), 洗澡 . (various references)

Cornish

badhya (to bathe). (various references)

Czech

vykoupat se (have a bath), vykoupat, omývat (elutriate, wash), koupat se, koupat. (various references)

Danish

bade. (various references)

Dutch

in bad doen, baden (have a bath, swimming). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

armana (to bathe). (various references)

Esperanto

bani sin (have a bath), bani. (various references)

Faeroese

baða. (various references)

Farsi 

استحمام کردن (Dib), ابتنی , شستشوکردن (Bath, Lave, Tub, Washout), شستشو (Ablution, Bath, Launder, Lavation, Lotion, Rinse, Souse, Wash, Washout). (various references)

Finnish

kylvettää (bath). (various references)

French

baigner (bath), se baigner (have a bath, take bath). (various references)

Frisian

baaie (to bathe). (various references)

German

baden (baden, bath, bathing, be at sea, be awash, have a bath, imbrue, swim, swimming, to bathe, to take a bath), waschen (clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, scrubbing, shampoo, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, wash, washing). (various references)

Greek 

περιλούω, λούω (lave), λούζω, λούομαι (lave). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רטיב (moisten, urinate, wet), לטבול (dip, duck, immerse, sink), לרחוץ (rinse, wash). (various references)

Hungarian

fürdik (have a bath, have a swim, lave, swam, swum, to go for a swim, to swim, to take a swim), fürdet (lave, to bathe, to lave), fürdés (bathing, bogie, dip), úszás (crawl-stroke, floatage, flotage, natation, swim, swimming). (various references)

Indonesian

memandikan (tub), mandi (bath, bathing, dip, lave, tub). (various references)

Inuktitut

uvinikniaqluni (to bathe). (various references)

Irish

ionnail (wash). (various references)

Italian

bagnarsi (bath, bathing, dip, have, have a bath). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入浴 (bathing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にゅうよく (bathing). (various references)

Kongo

ku-yobila (to bathe). (various references)

Korean 

입욕하십시�". (various references)

Macedonian

banja (to bathe). (various references)

Manx

oonley (wash, wash of person), oonlaghey (purify, wash), niee (flush, launder, pan, wash), goaill thummey. (various references)

Maya

ichiint (to bathe). (various references)

Papago

wachchui (to bathe oneself). (various references)

Papiamen

tuma un bañu, dal un baño (have a bath). (various references)

Pig Latin

athebay

Polish

kąpać. (various references)

Portuguese

banhar (bath, dip, lavement, moisten, steep, wash, wet), banhar-se (have a bath). (various references)

Provencal

banhar (to bathe). (various references)

Romanian

baie (ablution, balneum, bath, bathing, bathroom, bay, ducking, seaside), spãla (clean, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash, wash up), se scãlda (welter), scãldare, scãlda (bath, lave, wash, wet), muia (dip, douse, liquefy, ret, soak, sop, steep, thaw, wet). (various references)

Romansch

bagnar (to bathe). (various references)

Ruanda

kwoga (to bathe). (various references)

Russian 

купать. (various references)

Samoan

e taele (to bathe). (various references)

Scottish

fathraig , fothraig, fairc (links), failc (va. bathe). (various references)

Sepedi

hlapa (to bathe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kupati se, kupanje (bathing). (various references)

Shona

-shamba (to bathe). (various references)

Spanish

bañarse (bath, have a bath, leap, wash, welter), bañar (bath, dip, imbrue, suffuse, wash). (various references)

Swazi

ku-bhukûsha (to bathe). (various references)

Swedish

badda (batha, dab, embrocate, foment), bada (bath, batha, take a bath, tub), bad (balneal, bath, baths, begged, pleaded, swimming), kallbad. (various references)

Tagalog

nalíligò (have a bath). (various references)

Thai

ชำระล้าง (rinse), อาบน้ำ (bath). (various references)

Turkish

banyo yaptırmak (bath), banyo yapmak (take a bath, tub), yüzmek (flinch, float, go for a swim, ride, shave, strike out, swim), yıkanmak (bath, clean oneself, splash, take a bath, wash), yıkamak (bath, clean down, launder, lave, lustrate, scrub, sluice, splash, wash), dalmak (barge, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), çevrili olmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

купатися (bath), купання (balneum, bath, bathing, dip), відмочувати, обливати, мити (lave, mop, sponge, wash), заливати (fill in, overflow, overwhelm, steep, suffuse, swamp, wash, wash down), промивати (backwash, clean, douche, scour, sluice, wash), плавати (float, sail, swim). (various references)

Vietnamese 

biển (bather, knot, water), sông (bather, strand, watercourse). (various references)

Welsh

ymolchi (wash oneself), ymdrochi, golchi (lather, wash). (various references)

Yucatec

ichkiil (have a bath). (various references)

alloes, lava, lavabam, lavabant, lavabis, lavabit, lavabitis, lavabitur, lavabo, lavabunt, lavamini, lavandos, lavandum, lavant, lavantem, lavare, lavarent, lavaret, lavaretur, lavas, lavate, lavatione, lavent, laventque, laver, laverat, laverint, laveris, laverit, lavero, laverunt, laveruntque, lavet, lavetur, lavi, lavissent, lavisset, lavisti, lavit, lota, lotae, lotaque, lotham, lotis, lotisque, lotos, lotus, perfuderit, perfudisti, perfunderentur, perfusa, perfusam. (various references)

estuver. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bathe": bathed, bather, bathers, bathes, bathetic, bathetically. (additional references)

Words ending with "bathe": sunbathe. (additional references)

Words containing "bathe": sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathers, sunbathes, unbathed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bathe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abihu, Athe, athi, atthe, baath, bache, Bachem, Bachev, baha, bahjee, baho, bahta, Bahu, baith, Baitha, Bakha, Bakhim, Bamhl, Bartha, Barthet, Barthez, Batcha, batchi, batde, batep, ba'th, Batham, Bathan, bathet, Batho, bathoa, bathr, bathu, batle, Batse, Batsheva, Beithe, besteht, Bethge, Bethke, Bethoe, Bhadohi, Bhakthan, bithc, bithe, blath, blathe, bohta, botha, bothe, Bothem, bothen, Buntha, Buthal, Buthe, Bytham, bythe, cathe, hathe, jathuk, oathe, Vathi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: abet, baht, bate, bath, beat, beta, beth, eath, haet, hate, heat, thae.

-2 letters: ate, bah, bat, bet, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tab, tae, tea, the.

-3 letters: ab, ae, ah, at, ba, be, eh, et, ha, he, ta.

+1 letter: bathed, bather, bathes, bertha, breath.

+2 letters: batched, batcher, batches, bathers, beneath, benthal, berthas, bethank, blather, brachet, breadth, breathe, breaths, breathy, habited, habitue, halbert, hatable.

+3 letters: absinthe, alphabet, barathea, barghest, batchers, bathetic, bathless, bathoses, bathrobe, bequeath, bethanks, bethesda, blathers, bolthead, brachets, brashest, breadths, breathed, breather, breathes, cohobate, deathbed, eurybath, habitude, habitues, halberts, hatboxes, hateable, heatable, hebetate, hecatomb, hoofbeat, huntable, sunbathe, thebaine, tithable, unbathed.

+4 letters: abashment, abhorrent, absinthes, adhibited, aitchbone, alphabets, bacchante, baratheas, barghests, batfishes, bathhouse, bathrobes, bathwater, beachiest, bequeaths, bethanked, bethesdas, betrothal, biathlete, birthdate, birthrate, blathered, blatherer, boathouse, boltheads, brachiate, branchlet, brashiest, breathers, breathier, breathily, breathing, buckwheat, catchable, cohabited, cohobated, cohobates, deathbeds, deathblow, earthborn, eightball, establish, eurybaths, flashtube, habitable, habituate, habitudes, hatchable, heartbeat, heartburn, hebetated, hebetates, hecatombs, herbalist, hereabout, heritable, hibernate, hoofbeats, houseboat, inbreathe, inhabited, inhabiter, matchable, reinhabit, shabbiest, shiftable, sublethal, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, tabbouleh, tarbushes, teachable, teachably, thebaines, thinkable, touchable, watchable, whaleboat, whitebait.

+5 letters: abashments, afterbirth, aitchbones, alphabeted, alphabetic, ambushment, analphabet, attachable, autobahnen, bacchantes, badmouthed, banishment, bathhouses, bathwaters, bathymetry, battleship, beachfront, bequeathal, bequeathed, bethanking, betrothals, biathletes, bichromate, bighearted, bioethical, birthdates, birthplace, birthrates, blackheart, blatherers, blathering, boathouses, brachiated, brachiates, branchiest, branchlets, breathable, breathiest, breathings, breathless, broadsheet, buckwheats, bushmaster, chalybeate, charitable, chatterbox, chelatable, deathblows, detachable, detachably, earthbound, eightballs, ethambutol, eurybathic, fathomable, featherbed, flashtubes, habiliment, habilitate, habituated, habituates, handbasket, hartebeest, heartbeats, heartbreak, heartburns, heartthrob, hebetating, hebetation, herbalists, hereabouts, hibernated, hibernates, hibernator, hospitable, houseboats, inbreathed, inbreathes, inhabiters, matchboxes, mothballed, reinhabits, saltbushes, sheathbill, shortbread, showboated, stablished, stablishes, subchapter, subtrahend, sunbathers, switchable, tabboulehs, tablecloth, tarbooshes, tetherball, thereabout, threadbare, timberhead, watchables, whaleboats, whereabout, whitebaits, whitebeard, whiteboard.

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