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bandage

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English

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An adhesive bandage on a hand following a minor dog bite
 
A soldier with a bandaged hand

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Borrowed from French bandage.

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bandage (plural bandages)

  1. A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
  2. A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
    • 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo [1]
      […] 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.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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. […].
  3. (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
    This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.

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Verb

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bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)

  1. To apply a bandage to something.
    • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [2]
      ...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.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From French bandage.

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  • IPA(key): /bandaːsjə/, [b̥anˈd̥æːɕə]

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bandage c (singular definite bandagen, plural indefinite bandager)

  1. bandage (medical binding)

Usage notes

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This typically isn't used for adhesive bandages, which instead are called plastre.

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Declension of bandage
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bandage bandagen bandager bandagerne
genitive bandages bandagens bandagers bandagernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bandage.

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bandage f (plural bandages)

  1. bandage
    Synonym: zwachtel

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French

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Etymology

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From bande +‎ -age.

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bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. bandage

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Interlingua

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bandage (plural bandages)

  1. bandage

Norman

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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bandage m (plural bandages)

  1. (Jersey, medicine) bandage

Swedish

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ett bandage

Etymology

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From French bandage.

Noun

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bandage n

  1. bandage

Declension

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Declension of bandage
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bandage bandages
definite bandaget bandagets
plural indefinite bandage bandages
definite bandagen bandagens
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