transcription, транскрипция: [ beɪð ]
( bathes, bathing, bathed)
1.
If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe . ( mainly BRIT FORMAL )
The police have warned the city’s inhabitants not to bathe in the polluted river.
VERB : V prep / adv , also V
•
Bathe is also a noun.
Fifty soldiers were taking an early morning bathe in a nearby lake.
N-SING : usu a N
• bath‧ing
Nude bathing is not allowed.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
When you bathe , you have a bath. ( AM; also BRIT FORMAL )
At least 60% of us now bathe or shower once a day.
= bath
VERB : V
3.
If you bathe someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. ( AM; also BRIT FORMAL )
Back home, Shirley plays with, feeds and bathes the baby.
= bath
VERB : V n
4.
If you bathe a part of your body or a wound, you wash it gently or soak it in a liquid.
Bathe the infected area in a salt solution...
VERB : V n
5.
If a place is bathed in light, it is covered with light, especially a gentle, pleasant light.
The arena was bathed in warm sunshine...
The lamp behind him seems to bathe him in warmth.
VERB : be V-ed in n , V n in n , also V n
6.
see also sunbathe