swathenoun
also swath uk/sweɪð/us/sweɪð/swathe noun (AREA)
[ C ] a long strip or large area especially of land:
Huge swathes of rainforest are being cleared for farming and mining.
[ S ] literary a large part of something that includes several different things:
These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.
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Geography: areas of land in general
- area
- circuit
- country
- curtilage
- dry land
- enclosure
- fiefdom
- interfluve
- interior
- lot
- orography
- parcel
- patch
- plot
- pocket handkerchief
- polder
- region
- sweep
- territory
- tract
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Groups and collections of things
swathe noun (CLOTH)
[ C ] a long strip of cloth:
His head was wrapped in swathes of bandages.
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Bands, straps and strips
- band
- bar
- belt
- binding
- blindfold
- collar
- dog collar
- duct tape
- masking tape
- raffia
- ribbon
- rubber band
- Scotch tape
- strip
- stripe
- sweatband
- tape
- thong
- webbing
- wristband
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swatheverb [ T ]
uk/sweɪð/us/sweɪð/to wrap around or cover with cloth:
He came out of the hospital swathed in bandages.
I love to swathe (= dress) myself in silk.
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- box sb/sth in
- dunk
- fence sth in
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wall sth off
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
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Covering and adding layers