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词汇 swaddle
释义 swaddle
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈswɒd.əl/ us /ˈswɑː.dəl/
to wrap a baby tightly in cloth: 用襁褓包裹(婴儿)
Swaddling a baby tightly in a blanket can be a good way to stop it crying.用毯子紧紧裹住婴儿可能是让他停止哭泣的好办法。
Synonyms
swathe
wrap
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
beleaguer
beleaguered
beset
border
box someone/something in
dunk
enclosure
fence something in
fence something off
flooding
gather
gift wrap
gift-wrapped
sheathe
siege
soak
steep
steep something/someone in something
submersion
swamp

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Parenting & caring for children

Examples of swaddle


swaddle
They have to be swaddled to be held.
The animal was swaddled in moist cheesecloth and secured to a piece of cork bolted to a rotatable stage.
Indeed, history may well show that now was the time when civil aviation was just getting out of its swaddling clothes.
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For the first months of its life it is wrapped close and tight in swaddling bands of physical protection from the world.
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The child walks as we unwrap the swaddling clothes, the cathedral stands in its full beauty as we remove the scaffolding.
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I am only concerned about the presiding officer in the cases of infants still in swaddling clothes, and of his own safety.
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We want to get rid of these swaddling clothes of restrictive practices in which so many industries are wrapped up at the moment.
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Let us open our eyes, and not swaddle ourselves in the theories of a bygone age.
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It is a dangerous delusion to imagine that we can obviate the need for strong defence by swaddling ourselves in the vague, comfortable language of international good will.
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As the young men or women grow up so gradually you can release the swaddling clothes and the restrictions, so that they can expand themselves and develop.
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Babies would be swaddled like this until about 8 or 9 months.
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Modern specialized baby swaddles are designed to make it easier to swaddle a baby than with traditional square blanket.
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Babies were highly protected and nutured, swaddled on a board, and carried on the back.
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Swaddle the brandy snifter in serviettes or a cloth to protect the hands.
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Tahrihim swaddle the entire body, including the face, so that the deceased is both clothed and protected against the gaze of other people.
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