swathe
pronunciation
How to pronounce swathe in British English:
UK [sweɪð]
How to pronounce swathe in American English:
US [swɑð, swɔð, sweð]
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- Noun:
- an enveloping bandage
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- Verb:
- wrap in swaddling clothes
Word Origin
- swathe (v.)
- "to bind with bandages, swaddle, wrap," Old English swaþian "to swathe, wrap up," from swaðu "track, trace" (see swath). The noun meaning "infant's swaddling bands" was found in Old English as swaþum (dative plural). Related: Swathed; swathing.
Example
- 1. However , regulatory pressure and the plunging appetite for risk have wiped out a swathe of lucrative businesses , ranging from securitisation to proprietary trading .
- 2. A large swathe of industrial london is to be destroyed , a lot of it ugly : reclamation yards , bottom-end used car firms .
- 3. The blankets that swathe his disabled limbs .
- 4. Such a new approach could provide the private equity industry with a swathe of fresh capital from asian countries .
- 5. The conservative-liberal democrat coalition has successfully persuaded a broad swathe of public opinion that the previous labour government left the country in a financial mess that must be fixed-and that is principally his achievement .