Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - swaddle
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(swaddles, swaddling, swaddled) If you swaddle a baby, you wrap cloth around it in order to keep it warm or to prevent it from moving. (OLD-FASHIONED) Swaddle your newborn baby so that she feels secure. ...a baby swaddled in silk brocade. VERB: V n, V-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb (~d; swaddling) Etymology: Middle English swadelen, swathelen, probably alteration of swedelen, swethelen, from swethel swaddling band, from Old English; akin to Old English swathian to swathe Date: 14th century 1. a. to wrap (an infant) with swaddling clothes b. envelop, swathe legs ~d in bandages 2. restrain, restrict marriage…~d him in a domesticity he came to loathe — Nina Auerbach ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. swathe (esp. an infant) in garments or bandages etc. Phrases and idioms swaddling-clothes narrow bandages formerly wrapped round a newborn child to restrain its movements and quieten it. Etymology: ME f. SWATHE + -LE(4) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. noun; = swaddling-clothes 2. v. 1) пеленать, свивать (младенца) 2) fig. сдерживать ...Англо-русский словарь
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- probably a frequentive form from O.E. swaюian (see swathe). Phrase swaddling clothes is from Coverdale translation of Luke ii:7. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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