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say it: bayth
bathe is a verb and noun meaning "cleanse the entire body". It is pronounced /ˈbeɪð/ — bayth. It carries 4 recorded senses.
suffuse or envelope with something
“The room was bathed in sunlight”
“I was bathed in a cold sweat”
“veal bathed in a rich creamy sauce”
swim for pleasure or recreation
the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation
“the Englishman said he had a good bathe”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bathe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.