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Swaddle   Listen
verb
Swaddle  v. t.  (past & past part. swaddled; pres. part. swaddling)  
1.
To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. "They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen."
2.
To beat; to cudgel. (Obs.)





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"Swaddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... nappy[obs3][Brit]; disposable diaper, cloth diaper; Luvs[brand names for diapers], Huggies. V. invest; cover &c. 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap[obs3], enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest. vest, clothe, array, dress, dight[obs3], drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter[obs3], rig, fit out; deck &c. (ornament) 847; perk, equip, harness, caparison. wear; don; put ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Swaddle" :   bind


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