bandage

See also: Bandage

English

An adhesive bandage on a hand following a minor dog bite
A soldier with a bandaged hand

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbændɪdʒ/

Noun

bandage (plural bandages)

  1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
  2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
    • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
      […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

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Verb

bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

  1. To apply a bandage to something.
    • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad,
      ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bandaːsjə/, [b̥anˈd̥æːɕə]

Noun

bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

  1. bandage (medical binding)

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bandage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbɑnˈdaːʒə/
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  • Hyphenation: ban‧da‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

bandage f (plural bandages)

  1. bandage
    Synonym: zwachtel

Derived terms

French

Etymology

bande +‎ -age

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑ̃.daʒ/
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Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. bandage

Further reading

Norman

Noun

bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

Etymology

From French bandage.

Noun

bandage n

  1. a bandage

Declension

Declension of bandage 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bandage bandaget bandage bandagen
Genitive bandages bandagets bandages bandagens
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