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bathed

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈbeɪðd// bathed

adj. covered in light or liquid. You use this to describe a place or person that is completely surrounded by something like sunshine or water.

adj. covered or soaked in a liquid or light. Often used in a participial sense to describe a scene or subject permeated by a specific atmosphere or illumination.


SIMPLE

The room was bathed in golden sunlight.

CONTEXTUAL

After the long hike, the valley below was bathed in the soft, purple glow of the setting sun.

COMPLEX

The ancient marble statues, bathed in the harsh fluorescent light of the modern gallery, seemed to lose the soft contours they once possessed under the Mediterranean sun.

Synonyms
Usage

Often follows a linking verb and is frequently paired with the preposition 'in'.

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