swaddle
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.
had swaddled
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past perfectof swaddle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Walking nearer to the water, there were hundreds of pins, bobbing in the murk — pins that had swaddled 16th-century babies, pins a Victorian dressmaker would have used, pins that held a funeral shroud.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2020
Rich and warm and beautiful, self-indulgent nature had swaddled herself about in barbaric bands of colour, a drowsy opulence of green and scarlet, soft-toned amber and pale, veiled azure.
From Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young
Marriage and hard work and children had swaddled this sister in bundles of strange flesh and drawn the face in new lines.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
By the aid of a stout bandage they had swaddled him up like a mummy, and duly sealed him to the planks of the little box, which served him for a bed.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The novelty of the thing, and the pretentiousness in which he had swaddled it, had deceived them finely.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
