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verb
To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
To dry or heat (unseasoned) wood for the purpose of straightening it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
From Middle English bethen, from Old English beþian, beþigean, beþþan, bæþþan (“to heat, warm, foment, wash, cherish; bathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþþjan, *baþigōn, from Proto-Indo-European *bheh1- (“to warm”). Cognate with Middle Dutch betten, bessen (“to moisten with hot water, humidify”).
