1. to wash oneself or another person in water
2. to go swimming or spend time in water for pleasure
3. to cover or surround something with light or liquid
Usage: often used figuratively

Examples

• She likes to bathe in warm water before bed.
• The nurse will bathe the patient every morning.
• We went to bathe in the lake on hot summer days.
• Children love to bathe at the beach.
• Moonlight bathed the garden in a silver glow.
• The valley was bathed in morning sunlight.
• He bathed the wound with antiseptic solution.