bandage
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈbændɪdʒ/
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venda
- The doctor applied a bandage to the cut on my arm to protect it while it healed.
- put a bandage on
- elastic bandage
- wrapped in bandages
They're talking about the bandage being a prop.
- They're talking about the bandage being a prop.
- They're CVSCVSS generic fabric bandage is my favorite.
- Went to the vets this morning and she had her second bandage removed.
- Nala had a fairly good night's sleep with her little bandage.
- We have people pulling a knife in a boxing match or, you know, plaster, you know, bandages in their boxing gloves or whatever is going on.
- I do have a medical kit, you know, first aid kit with a, with a tourniquet and bandages and medical seizures and that kind of stuff.
- And by the way, if you guys want to look at the menu, you guys also know that Danny doesn't have his bandages on a return to the side.
- And then he spent literally months fiddling around with ice cold salt solutions, trying to work out ways of winkling out the white cells from these bandages.
Examples
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The bandage is anti-bacterial.
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For example, one picture is a nurse putting a bandage on a child.
Academic text (2014) -
No, I just need a bandage.
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- Give me a bandage.
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My mother changed the bandages on my operation.
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Pass me one of those bandages.
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Do you have any clean cloth or bandages or anything?
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Max is on a cot in a tiny, spare room, a butterfly bandage under one eye.
Fiction book (1992) -
Every morning, Mother and Willie changed his bandages and put him in a clean pair of pressed pajamas.
Academic text (1991) -
"Never mind," I said, and yanked tight the compression bandage I had wound about the injured calf.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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2.3
A small piece of cloth or bandage that covers and protects a wound
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3.6
A thin, light cloth with a loose weave used to cover wounds
16
1.8
A small sticky bandage used to cover cuts or blisters
11
7.9
A long strip of cloth that wraps around a body part like an arm or leg
3
2.8
A piece of clean cloth placed over a wound to protect it
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2.6
A thin cotton cloth used to cover and protect a wound
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2.2
A small sticky strip with a soft pad that you put on the skin to cover small cuts
1
3.5
A small sticky bandage that covers and protects a cut
1
2.6
A long, stretchy cloth that wraps and supports an injured joint to reduce swelling
1
3.5
A cloth strip with a wet white paste that becomes hard to hold a broken bone still
A clean piece of cloth or pad placed over a wound to protect it
A clean pad of cotton or gauze that covers a wound after surgery to protect it
A roll of cloth used to wrap wounds or support injured body parts
A strip of cloth wrapped in overlapping turns around a limb like an arm
A large triangle of cloth used to support an injured arm by tying it around the neck
A wide triangular cloth worn around the neck to hold an injured forearm
A bandage that presses on a wound to stop heavy bleeding
A cloth wrap that supports a hanging body part like the scrotum or a heavy breast
A cloth bandage soaked in hard plaster that becomes rigid to keep a body part still
A bandage that covers the head or an amputation stump like a cap to protect the area
Compounds
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2.2
A small sticky strip with a soft pad that you put on the skin to cover small cuts
1
2.6
A long, stretchy cloth that wraps and supports an injured joint to reduce swelling
- Specialized
1
3.5
A cloth strip with a wet white paste that becomes hard to hold a broken bone still
- Specialized
A bandage that covers the head or an amputation stump like a cap to protect the area
- Specialized
A cloth strip with four tails that you tie over the head to hold the jaw or chin
- Specialized
A cloth bandage soaked in hard plaster that becomes rigid to keep a body part still
- Specialized
A cloth wrap that supports a hanging body part like the scrotum or a heavy breast
- Specialized
A large triangle of cloth used to support an injured arm by tying it around the neck
- Specialized
A strip of cloth wrapped in overlapping turns around a limb like an arm
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bandage comes from an old word band meaning 'a strip' of cloth used for tying. So a bandage is a strip of soft cloth used to cover and protect a wound.