bath

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  1. noun The act of soaking or cleansing the body, as in water or steam.
  2. noun The water used for cleansing the body.
  3. noun A bathtub.
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  • Four rooms plus a bath is an easier search than most. —  Persuader by Lee Child
  • He poked his head out of the doorway--the bath was at the far end of the bedroom from the hall door, and around a slight L formed by a wall. —  164 - Death In Little Houses
  • The prosecution has failed to prove that the hairs found in the bath are the defen­dant's, merely that they are similar. —  Disordered Minds
  • He would have been fine without a bed and certainly without the compu-station, but going without hot fresh water for a bath was absolutely unacceptable. —  SexyBeastIV
  • Traditionally, in Japan, the bath was a large wooden tub placed outside in the garden and filled with very hot water.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English bæth.
  2. Hebrew bat.

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  1. from Middle English bath, from Anglo-Saxon bæth, plural bathu, = Old Saxon bath = Dutch bad = Old High German Middle High German G. bad, bath, = Icelandic badh = Swedish Danish bad; prob., with formative -th (-d), from the verb represented by Old High German bajan, Middle High German bæjen, bæn, German bähen = Low German bäen, foment, = Middle English bœwen, cleanse, prob. = Latin fovere, foment: see foment.
  2. Later form for bathe, directly from the noun.
  3. Earlier in English, as Late Latin, batus, or else bat, bate, from Late Latin batus, from Greek βάτος, from Hebrew bath.
 

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