bathe

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bathe /beɪð/

▶verb

• 1 wash by immersing one's body in water.

  ■ soak or wipe gently with liquid to clean or soothe.

  ■ N. Amer. wash (someone) in a bath.

• 2 chiefly Brit. take a swim.

• 3 suffuse or envelop: the park lay bathed in sunshine.

▶noun Brit. a swim.

– derivatives
bather noun.

– origin OE bathian, of Gmc origin.