Swaddle

Definition: Swaddle

Swaddle

Verb

1. Wrap in swaddling clothes; of infants.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swaddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Swaddle

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

Crosswords: Swaddle

Albanian

pelenoj, mbështjell me pelena. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لفافة (roll), ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏قمط, ‏قماط, ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, tether, tying, unite), ‏دثر (muffle, pad). (various references)

Bulgarian 

възпирам (control, debar, deter, enchain, interdict, prohibit, repress, restrain, retain, stay), повивам бебе в пелени (diaper). (various references)

Czech

zavinout do plenek. (various references)

Farsi 

قنداق کردن (Swath, Swathe, Wrap), درقنداق پیچیدن . (various references)

Finnish

kapaloida. (various references)

French

langer, lange (swaddling clothes), emmitoufler, emmailloter (swathe). (various references)

German

wickeln (bandage, bind, coil, dress, put in curlers, put in rollers, roll, roll up, to swaddle, twist, wind, wind up, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Greek 

σπαργανώνω, φασκιώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעטוף (cloak, clothe, cover, envelop, fold up, swathe, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), לחתל (bandage, diaper, swathe, wrap up), לכרוך (coil, entwine, swathe, wrap). (various references)

Hungarian

bepólyáz (bandage, swathe, to bandage, to enswathe, to swaddle, to swathe). (various references)

Indonesian

membalut (first aid). (various references)

Italian

fasciare (band, bandage, bind, strap up, swathe, wrap). (various references)

Manx

soailley (bind, lag, lagging, swathe, swathing, wrap, wrapper). (various references)

Pig Latin

addlesway

Portuguese

faixas (swaddling-bands, swaddling-clothes), cueiros (swaddling-bands, swaddling-clothes). (various references)

Romanian

faşã (bandage), îngrãdi (bar, close, enclose, girdle, hedge, like, pale, protect, rail in, ring, surround, wall), înfãşa în scutece, înfãşa (bind, enswathe, pack, swathe). (various references)

Russian 

запеленать, пеленать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poviti (bend, bow, hunch, recurve, scrunch, stoop). (various references)

Spanish

fajar (band, swathe, wrap), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), empañar (blur, fog, mist, steam, tarnish). (various references)

Swedish

linda småbarn. (various references)

Thai

พัน, ห่อตัวทารก�"้วยผ้า. (various references)

Turkish

sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), kundaklamak (bundle, instigate, sabotage, set fire, swathe), kundak (swaddling clothes), kundağa sarmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, restrain, stay, stop, suppress, swallow, temper), сповивати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swaddle": swaddled, swaddles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swaddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sawdde, Sawtelle, swade, swardle, swatle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dawdles, waddles.

-1 letter: addles, dawdle, saddle, waddle, wealds.

-2 letters: addle, dales, dawed, deads, deals, dedal, laded, lades, lased, lawed, leads, sawed, swale, waded, wades, waled, wales, weald, weals, welds.

-3 letters: adds, ales, awed, awes, awls, dads, dale, dals, daws, dead, deal, dels, dews, elds, lade, lads, lase, laws, lead, leas, lewd, sade, sale, seal, slaw, sled.

+1 letter: dawdlers, swaddled, swaddles, twaddles, waddlers.

+2 letters: saddlebow, twaddlers.

+3 letters: disallowed, downscaled, saddlebows, windlassed.

+4 letters: candlewoods, dreamworlds, meadowlands, swellheaded, wonderlands, woodlanders.

+5 letters: bladderworts.