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bath-towel |
bathe |
bather |
bathetic |
bathhouse |
bathing
| bathing beauty
| bathing cap
| bathing costume
| bathing machine
| bathing suit
bathing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bathing has 2 senses
- bathing(n = noun.act) Array - immersing the body in water or sunshine; Array is a kind of diversion, recreation
- bathing(n = noun.act) washup - the act of washing yourself (or another person); Array is a kind of cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, lavation, wash, washing
has particulars: sea bathing, sun bathing
Derived form verb bathe3
has particulars: shower, shower bath, bath, sponge bath, steam bath, turkish bath, vapor bath, vapour bath
Derived form verb bathe1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bathing, n.
Act of taking a bath or baths. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
bathing
Australian crawl, Rugby, acrobatics, affusion, agonistics, aquaplaning, aquatics, aspergation, aspersion, association football, athletics, backstroke, balneation, baptism, bath, bathe, bedewing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, diving, dog paddle, drowning, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, flooding, gymnastics, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, laving, moistening, natation, palaestra, rinsing, rugger, sidestroke, soccer, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sports, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, surfboarding, surfing, swashing, swim, swimming, track, track and field, treading water, tumbling, wading, watering, waterskiing, wetting
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