different between bathe vs launder

English

Etymology

From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-Germanic *baþ?n? (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /be?ð/
• Rhymes: -e?ð

Verb

bathe (third-person singular simple present bathes, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)

1. (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
3. (transitive) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.

   We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.

4. (transitive) To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.

   She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.

   The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.

   The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.

5. (figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.

   The room was bathed in moonlight.

   A dense fog bathed the city streets.
6. (intransitive) To sunbathe.

   The women bathed in the sun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bath

Translations

Noun

bathe (plural bathes)

1. (Britain, colloquial) The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.

   I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.

Translations

Anagrams

• beath, behat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b? þ?.

Determiner

bathe

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

bathe

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Etymology 2

From Old English baþian.

Verb

bathe

1. Alternative form of bathen

English

Etymology

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lav? (“I wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• Rhymes: -??nd?(?), -??nd?(?)

Noun

launder (plural launders)

1. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
2. (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
3. A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

   Synonym: inlayer

4. A gutter (for rainwater).

Synonyms

• (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman

Translations

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
2. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
4. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

Derived terms

• money laundering

Translations

Related terms

• launderer
• launderette
• laundress
• laundry
• lave

References

• launder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• launder at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arundel, lurdane, rundale

Middle English

Noun

launder

1. Alternative form of lavender