Meaning of báigh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. drown
   transitive
2. sink, submerge
   transitive
3. immerse
   transitive
4. inundate, drench
   transitive
5. quench
   transitive
6. elide
   transitive
7. Equivalent to 'Drench': A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured...

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Examples

“Nuair do chuir an bhuachaill a chos ar an phlainc, le dul tar an pholl, lúb sí síos san uisge, ar mhodh go robh an t‑ógánach ar tí bheith báithte, gur rinne sé é féin do choisreagadh, ⁊ ar an móimid d’éirigh an phlainc cómh daingean le Gaigeán, ⁊ léim an mada dubh síos ’san pholl as a bhealach.”

When the boy put his foot on the plank to cross the pool, it bent down into the water, so that the youth was on the point of being drowned, till he crossed himself; and in a moment the plank became as firm as Gaigean, and the black dog jumped down into the pool out of his way.

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