| 单词 | swathe |
| 释义 | swathe (once / 2554 pages) vn When you swathe yourself in a blanket, you are wrapping or swaddling yourself up in it. Swathe a baby up and you're creating a little cocoon where she can sleep. The word swathe can also be spelled swath. When spelled with an e, it is pronounced like the word "bathe." When you bathe, you immerse yourself in water and when you swathe yourself, you immerse or bundle yourself in blankets. Commonly, this word can be used to talk about how you might wrap a baby up, but it's also the word for a long strip or bandage to protect a wound. WORD FAMILYswathe: swathed, swathes, swathing+/swathing: swathings USAGE EXAMPLESSwathes of central and eastern Syria are under IS or Kurdish control. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Looking at the map, there are large swathes under both jihadist and Kurdish control. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Second World War 'victory gardens' in Britain, for instance, saw everything from swathes of London's Hyde Park to railway embankments do duty as cropland. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) 1v wrap in swaddling clothes Syn|Hyper swaddle bind make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope 2n an enveloping bandage Syn|Hyper wrapping bandage, patch a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body |
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