SWATHE Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

swathe

verb

ˈswät͟h

Definition of swathe

as in to wrap

to surround or cover closely handed me an odd-shaped package swathed in bright pink tissue paper

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as in to bandage

to cover with a bandage tenderly swathed the soldier's wounds

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Recent Examples of swathe In total, the home spans five bedrooms and nine bathrooms, including a powder room swathed in a punchy wallcovering decorated with pink pineapples. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026 Composed of top-of-the-line cotton and swathed in a rich Ruby Red for fall, the zip-up also comes with a drawstring hood and channels an inherently nostalgic, Americana kind of energy. — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026 McNeely’s portrait of a laboring mother, swathed in glowing fields of chartreuse, outshines (again, literally) art history’s greats. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The pepper is then swathed in nogada, a velvety white sauce made from walnuts. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for swathe

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The remains, wrapped in several layers of garbage bags, were turned over to the Gang Supression Force by HERO, a relief organization that was contacted through humanitarian channels, the group told the Miami Herald.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
Paul Herlihy’s body was found on the kitchen floor wrapped in carpet and covered with a blue tarp.

— Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of wrap

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So that really helped me bandage those wounds from 1989, the fact that after all these years, there are people that still care pretty intensely about this movie.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026
Police then escorted Rajapaksa, who had one eye bandaged from recent surgery, to a vehicle to be taken to a jail.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of bandage

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In addition to the 34th Street garden, the Prairie Terrace at 17th Street will reopen after being shrouded in scaffolding for nine years because of construction alongside it.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2026
But the process was shrouded in secrecy because working with Nolan is an in-person process.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of shroud

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The attack is not so much a matter of precision as enclosing an area—hopefully a space that the fly is within when her jaws slap shut.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
In 1928, Schindler returned to enclose the sleeping porches and turn them into conventional bedrooms.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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