Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take a bath

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables: take a -bath
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

verb

To lose a large amount of money in an investment.

Example Sentences

"She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime."
"Take a bath with fragrant herbs."
"Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt."
"1983 December, ‘Look before you leap into a commodity pool’, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 74, In the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath."
"The lenders took a bath because they had to honor fixed rate loans of 5 to 10% while borrowing money at 15 to 20% to fund them."
"The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong."

Inflected Forms

takes a bath (present, singular) taking a bath (participle, present) took a bath (past) taken a bath (participle, past)

Synonyms

have a bath

Questions

What does take a bath mean?: To bathe.

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