bathe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To take a bath.
2. v. To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.
3. v. To become immersed in or as if in liquid.
4. v. To sunbathe.
5. v. To immerse in liquid; wet.
6. v. To wash in a liquid.
7. v. To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes: bathed the wound with iodine.
8. v. To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse: a room that was bathed in sunlight.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To place in a bath; immerse in water or other fluid, for cleanliness, health, or pleasure.
2. To apply water or other liquid to with a sponge, cloth, or the like, generally for therapeutic purposes.
3. To water moisten, or suffuse with any liquid.
4. To immerse in or surround with anything analogous to water: as, bathed in sunlight.
5. In zoology, to tint; tinge in a uniform manner, giving the appearance of one color seen through another: as, black bathed with purple, brown bathed with rosy, etc.
6. To take a bath; be in water or other liquid; go into water to bathe one's self.
7. To be immersed or surrounded as if with water.
8. n. The act of bathing; the immersion of the body in water: as, to take one's usual bathe. Edinburgh Rev.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
2. v. intransitive To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
3. v. transitive To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
4. v. transitive To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
5. v. figuratively (transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
6. v. intransitive To sunbathe.
7. n. UK, colloquial The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
2. v. To lave; to wet.
3. v. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
4. v. To apply water or some liquid medicament to.
5. v. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
6. v. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
7. v. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
8. v. obsolete To bask in the sun.
9. n. The immersion of the body in water.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. clean one's body by immersion into water
2. v. suffuse with or as if with light
3. v. cleanse the entire body
4. n. the act of swimming