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/ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury..
[…]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
[…] 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.
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.[…].
This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.
Use bandage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bandage means A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury..
Common synonyms include bind.
Possible antonyms include unadorned, undecorated.
[…]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
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