Definitions for swaddle

swaddle swad·dle

Spelling: [swod-l]
IPA: /ˈswɒd l/

Swaddle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in swaddle (addelsw).

Definitions for swaddle

noun

  1. a long, narrow strip of cloth used for swaddling or bandaging.

verb (used with object)

  1. to bind (an infant, especially a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
  2. to wrap (anything) round with bandages.

Origin of swaddle

1375-1425; late Middle English, in suadiling (gerund); akin by gradation to Middle English swethel (noun), Old English; see swathe1, -

Examples for swaddle

The swaddle is a piece of stout cloth about a yard square, to one corner of which is attached a long narrow band.

But she had preferred to swaddle and nurse her feeling of offence, and coquet at the same time with Mashko.

The one thing she would not buy was a sewing machine to make her own swaddle with, as Ilse economically counselled.

Why don't you swaddle him round with good tight girths, or secure his natural tub with a strong sorb-apple-tree hoop?

The English approach is to swaddle any attacks with disarming self-deprecation.

There would be sad screaming and kicking were I to swaddle mine in stone-work.

Come, come, strap and string down; swaddle it round wi' sax dizzen o' wheelbands, and fasten a steel-belted fur cap ower aboon a'.

He wanted to take the serape of the grandee and swaddle him in it.

They take a live man, let us say Sergey Golovin, they swaddle him as a doll and they hang him by the neck until he is dead.

Word Value for swaddle
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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