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SWATHE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enveloping bandage

Synonyms:

swathe; wrapping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("swathe" is a kind of...):

bandage; patch (a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body)

Derivation:

swathe (wrap in swaddling clothes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrap in swaddling clothes

Example:

swaddled the infant

Synonyms:

swaddle; swathe

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "swathe" is one way to...):

bind (make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

swathe (an enveloping bandage)

swathing (cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby))

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 Context examples: 

His companion was young and straight, with a quick, elastic step and graceful bearing, though so swathed in a black mantle that little could be seen of her face save a flash of dark eyes and a curve of raven hair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, saucy! saucy, quoth he, with gentle chiding; on which the bear, uncertain and puzzled, dropped its four legs to earth again, and, waddling back, was soon swathed in ropes by the bear-ward and a crowd of peasants who had been in close pursuit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rider was a stern-faced man, hard of mouth and dry of eye, with a heavy sword clanking at his side, and a stiff white bundle swathed in linen balanced across the pommel of his saddle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A chaplet of pearls sparkled amid her black hair, with a gauze of silver network flowing back from it over her shoulders; a black mantle was swathed round her, and she leaned back in her chair as one who is fresh from a journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here too were the beautiful brunettes of the Gironde, with eyes which out-flashed their jewels, while beside them rode their blonde sisters of England, clear cut and aquiline, swathed in swans'-down and in ermine, for the air was biting though the sun was bright.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)