Bathe /(bāth)/

imp. & p. p. Bathed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing

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

   Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus.

2. To lave; to wet.
3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

   And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood.

4. 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.
5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.

1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.]

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