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swaddle
[ swod-l ]
verb (used with object)
- to bind (an infant, especially a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
- to wrap (anything) round with bandages.
noun
- a long, narrow strip of cloth used for swaddling or bandaging.
swaddle
/ ˈswɒdəl /
verb
- to wind a bandage round
- to wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes
- to restrain as if by wrapping with bandages; smother
noun
- swaddling clothes
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Other Words From
- un·swaddled adjective
- un·swaddling adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of swaddle1
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Example Sentences
They are machine-washable, cotton swaddles that can double as baby blankets, car seat covers, and more.
Measuring 16 x 64 inches, these swaddles will fit your new little life perfectly.
The English approach is to swaddle any attacks with disarming self-deprecation.
The swaddle is a piece of stout cloth about a yard square, to one corner of which is attached a long narrow band.
They take a live man, let us say Sergey Golovin, they swaddle him as a doll and they hang him by the neck until he is dead.
The one thing she would not buy was a sewing machine to make her own swaddle with, as Ilse economically counselled.
There would be sad screaming and kicking were I to swaddle mine in stone-work.
Come, come, strap and string down; swaddle it round wi' sax dizzen o' wheelbands, and fasten a steel-belted fur cap ower aboon a'.
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