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bathe
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[ verb ] cleanse the entire body
Examples "bathe daily" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe , Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration , trembling lest his authorship become known , and at_the_same_time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)`` Ex-cuse me '' , he said in Berlitz_English , and got_up and left them , to bathe and dress . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed , brushed , and taking_breaths of air , and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy , a grace of history , so_to_speak , and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value . |
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[ verb ] suffuse with or as if with light
Examples "The room was bathed in sunlight" Used in print (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)Starting with the room completely blacked_out , as it was when we came_in , he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) the act of swimming
Examples "the Englishman said he had a good bathe" Related terms |
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