bathed Definition

bath
noun baths

1. A large open container for water, in which to wash the whole body while sitting in it.
2. An act of washing the body in a bath.
3. The water filling a bath.

Example: run a bath
4. A public swimming pool.

Form: the baths
5. A liquid with or in which something is washed, heated or steeped, etc, as a medicinal or cleansing treatment, etc or as part of a technical process such as developing photographs.

Example: acid bath
Example: baby bath
6. A container in which something is washed, heated, or steeped, etc, of appropriate size and shape for the specific purpose.

Example: an eye bath

verb bathed, bathing

1. To wash someone or something in a bath

Example: Have you bathed the children?
intr
2. To wash oneself in a bath. See also bathe².

Example: She baths every evening
Form: have a bath (also)
Form: take a bath

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bæth.

Info:

See Usage Note at bathe.

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bathe
verb bathed, bathing

intr
1. To swim in the sea, etc for pleasure.
(chiefly N Amer)
intr
2. To wash oneself in a bath; to take a bath.
3. To wash or treat (part of the body, etc) with water, or with a liquid, etc to clean it or to lessen pain.

Example: Bathe the wound every hour
Thesaurus: wash, clean, scour, scrub, cleanse, rinse, soak, dip, immerse.
4. To cover and surround it or them (eg in light); to suffuse.

Example: Sunlight bathed the room
Form: bathe something or someone in something (often)
Form: bathe something or someone with something

noun

bathes
1. An act of swimming in the sea, etc; a swim or dip.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bathian to wash.

Info:

In British English, bathe refers to swimming, or to therapeutic washing, eg of wounds or sore feet; bath is the verb for washing yourself or someone in a bath. In the past tense, the same form bathed is used (with different pronunciations when spoken), which contributes to the uncertainty. In American English, bathe has both meanings.