to bathe in
12
2.1
- phrasal verb
- /beɪð ɪn/
:
bañarse en
- But God is watching over baby Moses, and Pharaoh's daughter comes down to bathe in the Nile.
- bathe in the water
- bathed in light
He told me that they no longer liked to bathe in that particular pond to right.
- He told me that they no longer liked to bathe in that particular pond to right.
Examples
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He bathed in the river.
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Every day we bathed in the radiant heat of the sun.
Academic text (2000) -
Perhaps if they let me go bathe in the river in the evening, I could have checked.
Fiction book (2000) -
We bathed in the same water as the cattle.
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When rain fell at night, he liked to bathe in the open, letting the downpour sluice over him.
Fiction book (1992) -
And here we see a couple muscular gentlemen from the United Kingdom as they bathe in the beautiful baths of this place in Croatia.
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If you bathe in Mother Ganga there, with the right attitude, one would hope you'd get rid of all your bad karma, all your demerits; all your bad deeds are washed away by the purity of the river.
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Many of our guests travel from far and wide to bathe in our healing waters.
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They slept under the stars and bathed in icy streams after a long hike.
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If you bathe in the ocean, you can feel the stress melt away.
Synonyms
110
1.0
To wash and relax in a tub of warm water
16
1.4
To swim for pleasure in the sea or pool
7
2.8
To go into the water for a short time to swim or cool off
1
9.9
To wash someone or something gently with water
1
2.3
To relax for a while in warm water in a bathtub
How Immersed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to immerse oneself in water for cleansing or relaxation' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bathe' (to wash/immerse oneself) with the preposition 'in' (indicating location). This verb + preposition composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Bathe in comes from the simple image of bathe (to wash) and in (inside water): imagine stepping into a warm tub so the water is all around you. That's why it means 'to immerse yourself in water to clean or relax'.