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Word entry · 5 letters

bathe

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"Wash the body"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /beɪð/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abehtStarts with BEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Wash the body or cover something in liquid or light.

Word origin

From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.

Used in a sentence

  • A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
  • We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.
  • She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.

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