Also means
to soak
Usage Note
Bagnare covers wetting something (rain wetting you), watering plants, and bathing a body part. The reflexive bagnarsi means 'to get wet' or 'to bathe.' A common idiom: bagnarsi fino alle ossa ('to get soaked to the bone'). It takes avere as auxiliary in transitive use; bagnarsi uses essere.
Examples
"La pioggia mi ha bagnato tutto."
Natural Translation
The rain soaked me completely.
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