BANDAGE Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of bandage

as in to bind

to cover with a bandage her mother always bandages her scraped knees very carefully

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Recent Examples of bandage

Verb

On a recent morning in the city center, Spanish police were kicking out young boys who had slept overnight on cardboard slabs, some of them bruised and bandaged. — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026 The video also shows officers bandaging the woman's wound after she was shot in the parking lot. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Noun

Xuan was seated in a wheelchair with a bandage on the back of his neck and intravenous ports sticking out of his chest. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 The couple soon realized Apex had a bandage on his left shoulder and was still limping. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bandage

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bandage

Verb

Underneath that messaging is a feud between the party’s left flank and centrist arm that’s bound to erupt after Tuesday’s results.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Researchers can tune a network’s structure using this self-adjusting behavior, which limits how many neighbors each particle binds to.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of bind

Noun

Parts of a dust jacket missing due to tape or just large tears is bad patina in my eyes.

— David Michon, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2026
The Geese prodigy plays prepared piano on the bric-a-brac tune; Hill contributes vocals, ukulele, celesta, production, and other technical duties that make use, in part, of an Ampex MM1200 reel-to-reel tape machine.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of tape

Verb

American by birth, Gill believed that curare had the potential to heal any number of diseases, including his own multiple sclerosis.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
The fourth-round pick started the season on IR due to a preseason ankle injury that the team knew would take time to heal.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of heal

Verb

The Oilers became the first team in the NHL to dress a full-time emergency backup goalie, with Brett Epp sitting on the bench.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
In 2001, he was fired from MTV UK after turning up to work dressed as Osama bin Laden two days after the September 11 terror attacks.

— Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of dress

Noun

In 1819 a new binding for the manuscript was made by a Swedish bookbinder.

— Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
To qualify, each candidate had to demonstrate consistent binding at both laboratories, meet a specified affinity threshold, and show no detectable binding to an unrelated human protein used as a control.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of binding

Verb

Following Masias’ detainment, immigration agents who milled about the parking were nonresponsive to the protesters, who shouted at them through the locked fence surrounding the Moss building as Sacramento Fire Department personnel treated Masias.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2026
The researchers say the cracks can be deliberately incorporated into the coating rather than treated as unwanted defects.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of treat

Noun

Harrison was raised by a Jewish mother and grandparents, but grew up in a Protestant household during adolescence in the Bible belt of Dallas, Texas.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 11 Nov. 2026
Butker seems to have earned a longer one, given his own Super Bowl rings under his belt in past seasons.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026

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