单词 | bathe |
释义 | bathe (once / 305 pages) 1vn 2v When you bathe, you wash yourself. A cat bathes itself by licking its fur with a rough tongue. If you're human, don't try that technique. The word bathe generally means to clean yourself in a tub of water — as opposed to shower, which means to wash beneath a stream of water. You can, however, use this verb to describe almost any kind of cleansing: you might bathe the scrape on a child's knee with a soapy cloth. Poetically, the sun can also bathe, or saturate, something with light. In Britain, to bathe also means "to swim." WORD FAMILYbathe: bathed, bather, bathes, bathing+/bather: bathers/bathing: bathings USAGE EXAMPLESTourists enjoying their breakfast looked down on fishing boats festooned with Christmas lights and bathed in unseasonally warm winter sunshine. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) At its best, it bathed in beauty, taste and predictability. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Around 10 a.m., they parade by visitors to the dam to bathe and relax. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v clean one's body by immersion into water The child should bathe every day Syn|Hypo|Hyper bath foment bathe with warm water or medicated lotions clean, cleanse clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing 2v cleanse the entire body bathe daily Hypo|Hyper shower take a shower; wash one's body in the shower clean, cleanse clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing 3n the act of swimming 2the Englishman said he had a good bathe Hyper swim, swimming the act of swimming v suffuse with or as if with light The room was bathed in sunlight Hyper enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering |
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