Swathe (Verb)
Meaning
Wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- Nurses gently swathed the newborn baby in a soft, warm blanket.
- The injured person was swathed in bandages to protect their wounds.
- A medieval physician swathed the noble's broken arm in linen cloth.
- The artist was swathed in layers of clothing, braving the freezing winter air.
- Her broken ribs were swathed in a tight bandage by the paramedics.