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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bathe \Bathe\, verb (used without an object)
1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. ''They bathe in summer.'' --Waller.
2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. ''To bathe in fiery floods.'' --Shak. ''Bathe in the dimples of her cheek.'' --Lloyd.
3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bathe \Bathe\, noun The immersion of the body in water; as, to take one's usual bathe. --Edin. Rev.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bathe \Bathe\ (b[=a][th]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} (b[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bathing}.] [OE. ba[eth]ien, AS. ba[eth]ian, fr. b[ae][eth] bath. See 1st {Bath}, and cf. {Bay} to bathe.]
1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. --South.
2. To lave; to wet. ''The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.'' --T. Arnold.
3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
And let us bathe our hands in C[ae]sar's blood. --Shak.
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. ''The rosy shadows bathe me. '' --Tennyson. ''The bright sunshine bathing all the world.'' --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bathe
noun: 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 bathe every day" [syn: {bath}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "bathe": Australian crawl, Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bandage, baptize, bath, bathing, breaststroke, brew, butterfly, care for, cold shower, crawl, cure, diagnose, dive, diving, doctor, dog paddle, douche, douse, drench, drouk, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, float, floating, flush, flush out, flux, gargle, give care to, go in swimming, go in wading, heal, hip bath, holystone, hummum, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, inject, irrigate, lap, lather, launder, lave, leach, lip, lixiviate, macerate, massage, minister to, mop, mop up, natation, needle bath, nurse, operate on, percolate, permeate, physic, plaster, plunge bath, poultice, purge, remedy, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, rub, saturate, sauna, sauna bath, scour, scrub, scrub up, seethe, shampoo, shower, shower bath, sidestroke, sitz bath, skinny-dip, sluice, sluice out, soak, soap, sodden, sop, souse, splint, sponge, sponge bath, steep, strap, surfboarding, surfing, swab, sweat bath, swim, swimming, syringe, toivel, tread water, treading water, treat, tub, wade, wading, wash, wash out, wash up, waterlog, waterskiing, whirlpool bath
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