[syn: bind, bandage]
2. dress by covering or binding;
- Example: "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"
- Example: "bandage an incision"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bandage \Band"age\ (b[a^]nd"[asl]j), n. [F. bandage, fr. bande.
See Band.]
1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and
binding up wounds, etc.
[1913 Webster]
2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over
or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a
ligature.
[1913 Webster]
Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage
over her eyes. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bandage \Band"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandaged
(b[a^]nd"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandaging
(b[a^]nd"[asl]*j[i^]ng).]
To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the
eyes.
[1913 Webster] band-aid
Band-Aid
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bandage
n 1: a piece of soft material that covers and protects an
injured part of the body [syn: bandage, patch]
v 1: wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn:
bind, bandage]
2: dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained
ankle"; "bandage an incision"