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bathe
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)
- (intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
- (intransitive) To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
- (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.
- (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.
- (figuratively, transitive and intransitive) To cover or surround.
- The room was bathed in moonlight.
- A dense fog bathed the city streets.
- (intransitive) To sunbathe.
- The women bathed in the sun.
Derived terms
Related terms
- bath
Translations
Noun
bathe (plural bathes)
- (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
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Conjunction
bathe
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Etymology 2
From Old English baþian.
Verb
bathe
- Alternative form of bathen
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steep
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?p, IPA(key): /sti?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English steep, from Old English st?ap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz. Compare Old Frisian st?p, Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).
The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.
Adjective
steep (comparative steeper, superlative steepest)
- Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
- (informal) expensive
- (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
- 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum
- Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected
- 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum
- (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular
Derived terms
- steepen
Synonyms
- (dialectal) brant
Translations
Noun
steep (plural steeps)
- The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
- 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
- It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope
- 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
Etymology 2
From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijan? (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English st?pian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Doublet of stoop.
Verb
steep (third-person singular simple present steeps, present participle steeping, simple past and past participle steeped)
- (transitive, middle) To soak or wet thoroughly.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower
- In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower
- (intransitive, figuratively) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
- The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
- 1989, Black 47, Big Fellah:
- We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood / But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood / And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth / I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all.
Derived terms
- insteep
Translations
Noun
steep (countable and uncountable, plural steeps)
- A liquid used in a steeping process
- Corn steep has many industrial uses.
- A rennet bag.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Estep, Tepes, speet, teeps, tepes
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