bandage

bandage
    n 1: a piece of soft material that covers and protects an
         injured part of the body [syn: {bandage}, {patch}]
    v 1: wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose [syn:
         {bind}, {bandage}]
    2: dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained
       ankle"; "bandage an incision"
    

Bandage \Band"age\ (b[a^]nd"[asl]j), n. [F. bandage, fr. bande.
   See {Band}.]
   1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and
      binding up wounds, etc.
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   2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over
      or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a
      ligature.
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            Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage
            over her eyes.                        --Addison.
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Bandage \Band"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bandaged}
   (b[a^]nd"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bandaging}
   (b[a^]nd"[asl]*j[i^]ng).]
   To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the
   eyes.
   [1913 Webster] band-aid
   Band-Aid
    

136 Moby Thesaurus words for "bandage":
      Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Mystik tape, Scotch tape, adhesive tape,
      application, band, bandaging, bathe, batten, bedazzle, belt, bend,
      benight, bind, bind up, binder, binding, blind, blind the eyes,
      blindfold, brace, bundle, care for, cast, cataplasm,
      cellophane tape, chain, cinch, cloth tape, compress, cotton,
      court plaster, cravat, cure, darken, daze, dazzle,
      deprive of sight, diagnose, dim, do up, doctor, dress, dressing,
      dust jacket, eclipse, elastic bandage, envelope, envelopment,
      epithem, excecate, fascia, fillet, flux, four-tailed bandage,
      friction tape, gauze, gift wrapping, gird, girdle, girt, girth,
      give care to, glare, gouge, heal, hoodwink, jacket, lace, lash,
      lath, leash, ligula, ligule, lint, list, make blind, masking tape,
      massage, minister to, nurse, obscure, operate on, physic, plank,
      plaster, plaster cast, plastic tape, pledget, poultice, purge,
      remedy, ribband, ribbon, roller, roller bandage, rope, rub,
      rubber bandage, shred, slat, sling, slip, snow-blind, spill,
      splice, spline, splint, sponge, strake, strap, strike blind, strip,
      strop, stupe, swaddle, swathe, taenia, tampon, tape, tape measure,
      tapeline, tent, ticker tape, tie, tie up, tourniquet, treat,
      triangular bandage, truss, wire, wrap, wrap up, wrapper,
      wrapping