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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



... to swaddle our kittens and puppies; are they any the worse for this neglect? Children are heavier, I admit, but they are also weaker. They can scarcely move, how could they hurt themselves! If you lay them on their backs, they will lie there till they die, like the turtle, unable to turn itself over. ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... "Come, nurse, swaddle him, quick now. No pins, confound it all, strings, I will have strings. What? Give me the child, you don't understand anything ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz


Words linked to "Swaddle" :   swathe, bind


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