SWADDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swaddle mean? 

• SWADDLE (verb)
  The verb SWADDLE has 1 sense:

1. wrap in swaddling clothes

  Familiarity information: SWADDLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWADDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they swaddle    ... he / she / it swaddles   
Past simple: swaddled   
Past participle: swaddled   
-ing form: swaddling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrap in swaddling clothes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

swaddle; swathe

Context example:

swaddled the infant

Hypernyms (to "swaddle" is one way to...):

bind (make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

The dark patch to the left of center is swaddled in so much dust, even the infrared light is blocked.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

I have seen a better soldier with pap for food and swaddling clothes for harness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers first spotted bright star clusters in both Sharpless 2-54 and the Eagle Nebula, later identifying the vast, comparatively faint gas clouds swaddling the clusters.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)