Bandage
['bændɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.
(verb.) dress by covering or binding; 'The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle'; 'bandage an incision'.
Edited by Caleb--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
(n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
(v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fillet, band, binding.
Edited by Hugh
Examples
- Loose the bandage sufficiently to restore the pulse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Standing in the window we saw that his left hand was swathed in a bandage and that his face was very grim and pale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The old crone nichered a laugh under her bonnet and bandage; she then drew out a short black pipe, and lighting it began to smoke. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Godfrey felt Christian fingers unfastening his bandage, and extracting his gag. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There, there,--let me fix this bandage. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With a sabre cut, I suppose, and a bandage around his head. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was a bandage on my head but she washed all around the edge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was another stretcher by the side with a man on it whose nose I could see, waxy-looking, out of the bandages. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But then, as Herbert changed the bandages, more by the light of the fire than by the outer light, he went back to it spontaneously. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My legs in the dirty bandages, stuck straight out in the bed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The frenzy was so violent, that I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but, I had looked to them, to see that they were not painful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As soon as I got to the dressing station Manera brought a medical sergeant out and he put bandages on both my legs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If wounded, the surgeon dresses his mangled limb with rubber bandages, and when he gets well he has a rubber cushion on the end of his crutch, or on the foot of his artificial leg. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Many useful and artistic articles were made under this first patented process, including maps, surgical bandages, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Thank you, said my patient, but I have felt another man since the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has completed the cure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favored my object. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He had been wounded with some missiles from the crowd on the day of his capture, and his head was bandaged with a linen cloth. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Gordini's at the post getting bandaged. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mr. Rochester opened the shirt of the wounded man, whose arm and shoulder were bandaged: he sponged away blood, trickling fast down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- After this has been done, a soft cloth soaked in a solution of linseed oil and limewater should be applied and the whole bandaged. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Now he was bandaging. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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