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/bɪˈsweɪð/ · verb
(Scotland, dated) to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively)..
A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.
The night beswathed the sloomy holt with a pall of darkness.
He had beswathed his bleeding wound with a tattered piece of cloth.
For a swollen soreː at starting one shall cure with onlayings, that is, external applications, and salves; the salve shall be of barley groats sodden in ley, and cluvers sharn wrought with honey, and then let one lay the salve on a hot cloth, or on a skin, or on paper, beswathe with that, the swelling soon becometh nesh and bursteth within.
Use beswathe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Beswathe means (Scotland, dated) to cover (something) (both literally and figuratively)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A truth beswathed by the cover of lies.
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