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.
unswaddled
-
a word derived from
swaddle.
Example Sentences
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In a 2011 study of 103 inner-city U.S. parents, none reported putting their babies to sleep on their stomachs when they swaddled, whereas 9 percent of parents left unswaddled babies on their stomachs.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2013
One 2010 Australian study found that babies who were regularly swaddled did not have any more trouble waking than did unswaddled babies.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2013
Their censures we weigh not, whose senses are not yet unswaddled.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
It is maintained that unswaddled infants would assume faulty positions and make movements which might injure the proper development of their limbs.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
