sponge bath
A type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with…A type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with a sponge. Usually the person being washed is bed-ridden.
» Do you give patients a sponge bath every day?
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1 sensesA type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with a sponge. Usually the person being washed is bed-ridden.
- you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub
Examples
3 sentencesDo you give patients a sponge bath every day?
Give him or her a sponge bath regularly.
He took a sponge bath.
Translations
1 languagesForms
plural: sponge baths| Singular | sponge bath |
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