1. Cleanse the entire body
   "bathe daily"
    
2. Swim for pleasure or recreation
   "We bathed in the cool lake on a hot summer day"
    
3. Suffuse or envelope with something
   "veal bathed in a rich creamy sauce"; "The room was bathed in sunlight"; "I was bathed in a cold sweat"

1. The act of swimming for pleasure or recreation
   "the Englishman said he had a good bathe"

Derived forms: bathing, bathes, bathed

Type of: clean, cleanse, enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, swim, swimming, wrap

Encyclopedia: Bathe, John