Swathe

Definition: Swathe

Swathe

Noun

1. An enveloping bandage.

Verb

1. Wrap in swaddling clothes; of infants.

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

Date "swathe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swathe

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.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

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: Swathe

Ending with "swathe": pearl-swathe.

Albanian

fashoj (band, bandage, dress), fashë (band, bandage, gauze, patch, roller bandage, sling), bandë (band, bunch, gang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏عصابة (bandage, gang, herd, pack, ring, robbers, set, shower, tape), ‏عصب (bandage, bind, chord, nerve, sinew), ‏رباط (band, bind, bond, cord, couple, juncture, knot, ligament, ligation, ligature, truss). (various references)

Bulgarian 

откос (bank, bevel, cant, case shot, slope, swath, windrow), обвивам в, бинтовам, бинт (bandage), ивица между два откоса (swath). (various references)

Czech

ovinout (fold, wrap, wreathe), obvázat (bandage, bind, dress). (various references)

Dutch

zwachtel (bandage). (various references)

Esperanto

pansbendo (bandage). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), نوار (Band, Braid, Fascia, Lace, Ligature, Rand, Ribbon, Strip, Swath, Tape, Welt), قنداق کردن (Swaddle, Swath, Wrap), اثرماشین چمن زنی (Swath), راه باریک (Lane, Swath), ردیف باریک (Swath). (various references)

French

javelle (swath), faire un bandage, envelopper, emmailloter (swaddle), bande, andain (swath). (various references)

German

einwickeln (bandage, butter up, entangle, envelop, fool, implicate, muffle, to fold, to swathe, to wrap up, wind, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Greek 

σπαργανώ, επιδένω (bandage), θυμωνιά (stook, swath), δεμάτι (sheaf, truss). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעטוף (cloak, clothe, cover, envelop, fold up, swaddle, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), לחתל (bandage, diaper, swaddle, wrap up), לחבוש (bandage, dress, imprison, put on, saddle), לכרוך (coil, entwine, swaddle, wrap). (various references)

Hungarian

kötés (bandage, binding, coupling, dolly, dovetail joint, joint, knitting, knitwork, lace-work, swathing, tie), batyu (bundle, pack, scrip, swag). (various references)

Indonesian

perban (bandage), membedung, membarut (dress), bedung. (various references)

Italian

mannello (staple, swath), fasciare (band, bandage, bind, strap up, swaddle, wrap), andana (drift, swath, windrow, winrow). (various references)

Manx

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

Pig Latin

athesway

Portuguese

enfaixar (band, bandage, tape), bandagem (bandage, bandage dressing), atadura (band, band aid, bandage, binder, fillet, lacing). (various references)

Romanian

bandaja (bandage, bind, dress), bandaj (application, bandage, binding, ferrule, sash, truss), înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, lap, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, twine, wind, wrap), înfãşa (bind, enswathe, pack, swaddle). (various references)

Russian 

бинтовать (tape up), бинт (bandage, roller bandage, roller-bandage), повязка (armband, armlet, bandage, fillet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavoj (bandage, curvature, dressing), zaviti (bandage, wrap), otkos (swath). (various references)

Spanish

vendar (band, bandage, bind up, dress), fajar (band, swaddle, 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, swaddle, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe). (various references)

Swedish

insvepa (enshroud, wrap up). (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, swaddle, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), sargı (band, bandage, dressing, fascia, pack, roller bandage, stall, wrap, wrapping, wrappings), sarıp sarmalamak (wind up, wrap up), orakla bir defada biçilen yer (swath), kundaklamak (bundle, instigate, sabotage, set fire, swaddle), kundak bağı, kuşak (belt, binder, cincture, cummerbund, generation, girdle, loins, progeny, sash, waistband, zone), biçilmiş ekin yığını, bandaj (bandage, roller bandage), çevrelemek (begird, cincture, circle, encircle, enclose, environ, girdle, inclose, orb, ring, ring in, surround, twine about, twine around, wreathe). (various references)

Ukrainian

обгортати (wrap up), бандаж (band, bandage), бинтувати (bandage), бинт (band, bandage, roller). (various references)

Vietnamese 

băng (band, fascia, fasciae, millinery, string, strung). (various references)

fascia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swathe": swathed, swather, swathers, swathes. (additional references)

Words ending with "swathe": enswathe, inswathe, unswathe. (additional references)

Words containing "swathe": enswathed, enswathes, inswathed, inswathes, unswathed, unswathes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swathe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Salthe, sateh, Sawalha, Sawth, saythe, seathe, Staithe, swaith, swarthe, swatle, swith, Swithen, swote. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wheats.

-1 letter: haets, haste, hates, hawse, heats, swath, sweat, tawse, thaws, thews, twaes, waste, whats, wheat, whets.

-2 letters: ates, awes, east, eath, eats, etas, eths, haes, haet, hast, hate, hats, haws, heat, hest, hets, hews, sate, seat, seta, shat, shaw, shea, shew, staw, stew, swat, taws, teas, tews, thae, thaw, thew, twae, twas, waes.

+1 letter: swathed, swather, swathes, thawers, watches, wealths, wreaths.

+2 letters: enswathe, inswathe, sawteeth, somewhat, swatches, swathers, thawless, towheads, unswathe, washiest, watchers, waterish, weathers, whatness, wheatens, wreathes.

+3 letters: dishwater, enswathed, enswathes, inswathed, inswathes, outwashes, seaworthy, shortwave, somewhats, swarthier, sweatshop, thwackers, thwarters, unswathed, unswathes, watchcase, watcheyes, watershed, whackiest, whatsises, wheatears, whitecaps, whitewash, wrathiest.

+4 letters: bathwaters, buckwheats, cartwheels, deathblows, dishwaters, dogwatches, earthwards, earthworks, earthworms, enswathing, enwreathes, flatwashes, freshwater, handwrites, headwaters, heartwoods, heartworms, lengthways, midwatches, outwatches, shadowiest, shallowest, shearwater, shortwaves, showboated, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweatshops, sweetheart, switchable, thwartwise, unwreathes, washateria, washeteria, watchables, watchcases, watchcries, watersheds, wealthiest, whaleboats, whatnesses, whatsoever, whitebaits, whitefaces, whiteheads, whitetails, whitewalls.