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  • noun The washing of a person's body (especially that of a patient) in bed

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Examples

  • While I kept wondering in my mind what do they mean by this bedbath when I saw this Mr. Piercy placed a heavy waterproof Blanket in the bed and two buckets full of heavy crushed ice and several buckets of water and not even the courtesy as to consult me but stripped me naked and threw me in that cold deadly water.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • While I kept wondering in my mind what do they mean by this bedbath when I saw this Mr. Piercy placed a heavy waterproof Blanket in the bed and two buckets full of heavy crushed ice and several buckets of water and not even the courtesy as to consult me but stripped me naked and threw me in that cold deadly water.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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