a prefix, occurring orig. in loanwords from Latin, meaning âbefore, in front of,â âprior to, in advance of,â âsurpassingâ (predict; preeminent; preface; premaxilla); in English, esp. productive in forming verbs that specify an activity taking place before or instead of the usual occurrence of the same activity (preboard; precook; prepay), or in ...
1: a washing or soaking (as in water) of all or part of the bodyâsee mud bath, sitz bath. 2a: water used for bathingb (1): a medium for regulating the temperature of something placed in or on it (2): a vessel containing this medium.
bathing, a nursing intervention from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) defined as cleaning of the body for the purposes of relaxation, cleanliness, and healing. notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don't bathe much when they are there. Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context. A BOY bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned.