bandage
/ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/
bandage noun: a strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
Noun
bandage (plural bandages)
- 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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
- A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
- […] 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.1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75
- 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.[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
- This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
Verb
bandage (third-person singular simple present bandages, present participle bandaging, simple past and past participle bandaged)
- To apply a bandage to something.
- ...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.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%2Fmo...
bandage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bandage in Hindi
- medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
- पट्टी paṭṭī, पट्टा paṭṭā
bandage in Tamil
- காயங்களுக்குக் கட்டுப் போடுதல், கட்டு, கட்டுமானம், புண் கட்டுத்துணி, துணப்பட்டை, கண்கட்டு
bandage in Marathi
- medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
- मलमपट्टी malampaṭṭī
bandage in Urdu
- medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
- پٹی paṭṭī
More languagesFewer languages
- bandage in Bengali
- পটি pṭi, ব্যাণ্ডেজ bênḍej
- bandage in Telugu
- కట్టు kaṭṭu
- bandage in Malayalam
- മുറിവും മറ്റും കെട്ടാനുളള തുണിക്കഷണം
- bandage in Kannada
- ಕಟ್ಟುಪಟ್ಟಿ kaṭṭupaṭṭi
- bandage in Gujarati
- પટ્ટી paṭṭī
- bandage in Sanskrit
- पट्टिका paṭṭikā, पट्टी paṭṭī
- bandage in Pashto
- پټۍ paṭəj
- bandage in Tagalog
- bendahan
- bandage in Arabic
- ضِمَادَة ḍimāda, عِصَابَة ʕiṣāba
- bandage in Malay
- bebat, barut, balut
- bandage in Indonesian
- barut, balut, balutan, bebat
- bandage in Persian
- بانداژ bândâž
- bandage in Thai
- ผ้าพัน pâa-pan, ผ้าพันแผล pâa-pan-plɛ̌ɛ
- bandage in Vietnamese
- băng, băng giữ, băng bó
- bandage in Myanmar
- ပတ်တီး patti:
Examples of bandage in a sentence
- If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
- Did you fall over and hurt your knee? Never mind, I’ll put a bandage on it.
- This bandage will help to heal your cut.
Forms of bandage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bandages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bandages |
| present participle | bandaging |
| past participle | bandaged |
| past | bandaged |
Origin of bandage
Borrowed from French bandage.
Words formed from bandage
- bandageable
- rebandage
- unbandage
- adhesive bandage
- bandage dress
- bandagelike
- compression bandage
- liquid bandage
- living bandage
- pressure bandage
- rip off the bandage
- T-bandage
- triangular bandage
Phrases with bandage
Questions about bandage
- What does bandage mean?
- Bandage means a strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- What is bandage in Hindi?
- Bandage in Hindi is पट्टी (paṭṭī), पट्टा (paṭṭā). See Bandage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bandage?
- Bandage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bandage?
- Bandage is pronounced /ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of bandage?
- The plural of bandage is bandages.
Words near bandage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bandage (page history and authors); bandage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bandage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પટ્ટી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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