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bandage
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
bandage (plural bandages)
- A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- 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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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. […].
- 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
- This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
Derived terms
- adhesive bandage
- bandage dress
- bandagelike
- compression bandage
- liquid bandage
- living bandage
- pressure bandage
- T-bandage
- triangular bandage
Related terms
Translations
medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
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Verb
bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)
- To apply a bandage to something.
Derived terms
Translations
to apply a bandage to something
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Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)
- bandage (medical binding)
Usage notes
This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bandage” in Den Danske Ordbog
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bandage f (plural bandages)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bandage m (plural bandages)
Descendants
Further reading
- “bandage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Interlingua
Noun
bandage (plural bandages)
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
bandage m (plural bandages)
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
bandage n
Declension
Related terms
- bandagera (“to bandage”)
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