swaddle
pronunciation
How to pronounce swaddle in British English:
UK [ˈswɒdl]
How to pronounce swaddle in American English:
US [ˈswɑdl]
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- Verb:
- wrap in swaddling clothes
Word Origin
- swaddle (v.)
- "bind with long strips of cloth," late 15c. alteration of Middle English swathlen (c. 1200), probably a frequentative form of Old English swaþian (see swathe). Related: Swaddled; swaddling. Phrase swaddling clothes is from Coverdale (1535) translation of Luke ii:7. Young children ... are still bandaged in this manner in many parts of Europe to prevent them from using their limbs freely, owing to a fancy that those who are left free in infancy become deformed. [Century Dictionary, 1891] Wyclif uses swathing-clothes (late 14c.).
Example
- 1. Aden + anais muslin single swaddle wrap , mo ......
- 2. America should not use trade deals to swaddle drugmakers in excessive patent protections .
- 3. How do I swaddle my baby ?
- 4. I left your swaddle long time ago , my mother .
- 5. Close man-made cropland a few that years to be built simply greatly mad , violate on the mother that carrying swaddle on the back also idle does not live , also ground of travel day and night works .