If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe. The police have warned the city's inhabitants not to bathe in the polluted river. Bathe is also a noun. Fifty soldiers were taking an early morning bathe in a nearby lake. + bathing bath·ing Nude bathing is not allowed
If you bathe someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. Back home, Shirley plays with, feeds and bathes the baby. = bath
the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe" cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily" clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day" suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight
If a place is bathed in light, it is covered with light, especially a gentle, pleasant light. The arena was bathed in warm sunshine The lamp behind him seems to bathe him in warmth. see also sunbathe. a bathe when you swim in the sea, a river, or a lake