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Bandage   /bˈændɪdʒ/   Listen
Bandage

noun
1.
A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.  Synonym: patch.
verb
(past & past part. bandaged; pres. part. bandaging)
1.
Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.  Synonym: bind.
2.
Dress by covering or binding.  "Bandage an incision"



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"Bandage" Quotes from Famous Books



... gallantly emphasized his last words by raising the hand of the English lady to his lips. At the moment when he kissed it the canvas screen was again drawn aside. A person in the service of the ambulance appeared, announcing that a bandage had slipped, and that one of the wounded men was to all appearance bleeding to death. The surgeon, submitting to destiny with the worst possible grace, dropped the charming Englishwoman's hand, and returned to his duties in the kitchen. ...
— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins
... place for the purpose of giving relief to the injured man. Whereupon the deponent declares that he submitted to said process and was conducted by wagon and trail to a bark shanty at some place in the woods unknown to him where the bandage was removed from his eyes. He declares further that he found there, a strong built, black-bearded man about thirty years of age, and a stranger to him, lying on a bed of boughs in the light of a fire and none other. This man was groaning in great pain from a wound made by some heavy ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... second, "I wish no more than a bandage for my eyes and cotton for my ears. Only they have no cotton thick enough in ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... met and stopped alongside each other, and Sir Cresswell, with one sharp glance at the rough bandage which Vickers had fastened round Jim Spurge's head, rapped ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... there fell out upon the floor a little child's shoe, around which was wrapped a strip of stained and faded pink print. At a sight so unexpected she uttered a cry. Then she picked up the little shoe, and, having released it from its bandage, turned it over and over in her hands. Next she gave her attention to the piece of print. She was utterly dazed. Suddenly the full meaning of her discovery flashed upon her mind. She dropped the simple articles by which she had been so deeply moved, and, covering her face with her hands, burst ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth


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