sea-bathev.
intransitive (in quot. 1872 quasi-transitive with complement). To bathe in the sea.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > practise hydropathy [verb (intransitive)] > bathe in the sea
sea-bathe1792
1792 Lady Templetown Let. 11 June in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) vii. 104 Eliza is sea~bathing at Ramsgate.
1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xix The dirty population of Venice..gets itself dragged by a screaming kettle to Lido next morning, to sea-bathe itself into a capacity for more tobacco.
1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xviii. 141 We did nothing but sun-bathe and sea-bathe.
Derivatives
ˈsea-bathing adj.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [adjective] > relating to bathing in the sea
sea-bathinga1930
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 156 These all-but-naked sea-bathing city people.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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v.1792- to sit at one's heart
- to sit at the feet of
- to sit back
- to sit back on one's heels
- to sit back upon one's heels
- to sit beside the saddle
- to sit by
- to sit close to one's heart
- to sit down
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- to sit down on
- to sit easy
- to sit etc the pine
- to sit far in one's own light
- to sit fast upon
- to sit fast upon something
- to sit flat down
- to sit generals
- to sit hard on
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- to sit in
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