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  • verb To remove a bandage

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Examples

  • To prevent the shoulder from becoming completely stiff, older persons should unbandage the arm for a few minutes 3 times a day and, with the arm hanging at the side, move it gently in narrow circles.

    Chapter 17 1993

  • It is just because I see too well that I am obliged to bandage my eyes; I see with bandaged eyes just as well as others with unbandaged eyes; and if I unbandage them I look everything through and through, and when I gaze sharply at anything, it catches fire and bursts into flame, and what can't burn splits into pieces.

    Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources 1889

  • The surgeon they had hailed in had taken liberal time to show them how, night and morning, to unbandage, cleanse and rebind, and to tell them (smiling into the lad's mutinous eyes) that the only other imperative need was to keep him flat on his back for ten days.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • It is just because I see too well that I am obliged to bandage my eyes; I see with bandaged eyes just as well as others with unbandaged eyes; and if I unbandage them I look everything through and through, and when I gaze sharply at anything it catches fire and bursts into flame, and what can't burn splits into pieces.

    Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

  • 'Perhaps in a month's time I shall unbandage your eyes.

    The Man Bram Stoker 1879

  • I'm going to sit on the patio in the sunshine, and unbandage some of the wounds.

    LKH Blog lkh@laurellkhamilton.org 2010

  • "I know that you can't talk to me-we can't unbandage your jaw until next week-and you can't think at me, either, because your new Lens hasn't come yet.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

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