swaddle

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  1. transitive verb To wrap or bind in bandages; swathe.
  2. transitive verb To wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes.
  3. transitive verb To restrain or restrict.
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  • I don't think he's going to scream the whole time, as we're good at comforting him - mostly with the boob - or a swaddle, but I wonder if he's going to sleep.
  • Made of scraps and leftovers, quilts were used to swaddle babies, warm the sick, shelter sleepers through the bitter winter nights and cover the dead. —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • To swaddle your newborn, lay a receiving blanket out flat. —  Modern Mom
  • It features their 1-2-3 swaddle design for this couture minky-lined blanket with an outer shell of designer print,
  • Since I can no longer swaddle my youngest, I'm stuck in that weird place of needing to keep her warm, but not wanting to use a loose blanket just yet. —  Cool Mom Picks
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English swadlen, probably back-formation from swadling (band), swaddling (cloth), or swathelbonde, both from *swathelen, probably frequentative of Old English swathian, to swathe.

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  1. Early modern English swadle, swadil, swadell; from Middle English *swadel, swathel, swethel, suethel, from Anglo-Saxon swethel, swethil, a swaddling-band (= Middle Dutch swadel), from swethian, bind, swathe: see swathe.
  2. Formerly also swathle; from Middle English swathilen, swethlen, suedelen; from swaddle, n.
 

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