Past tense of bathe: to wash your body in water, or to cover or soak something in liquid or light.
From Old English 'bæðan,' related to 'bath' itself. The word originally meant 'to wash' but expanded metaphorically to mean 'to immerse in' anything—light, color, or emotion—creating poetic uses like 'bathed in moonlight.'
When poets write about landscapes 'bathed in golden sunlight,' they're using a metaphor that works in almost every language because bathing is such a universal human experience—it's one of our oldest and most comfortable sensations.
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