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BANDAGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bandaged mean?
• BANDAGED (adjective)
The adjective BANDAGED has 1 sense:
1. covered or wrapped with a bandage
Familiarity information: BANDAGED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered or wrapped with a bandage
Synonyms:
bandaged; bound
Context example:
an injury bound in fresh gauze
Similar:
treated (given medical care or treatment)
Context examples
Thank you, said my patient, but I have felt another man since the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has completed the cure.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rochester opened the shirt of the wounded man, whose arm and shoulder were bandaged: he sponged away blood, trickling fast down.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Twenty-four hours had passed since he had slashed open the hand that was now bandaged and held up by a sling to keep the blood out of it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You're doing well, my friend, he said to the fellow with the bandaged head, and if ever any person had a close shave, it was you; your head must be as hard as iron. Well, George, how goes it?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Leach, his bandaged arm prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants of the cook for him; and Wolf Larsen paused once or twice at the break of the poop to glance curiously at what must have been to him a stirring and crawling of the yeasty thing he knew as life.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Directly, sir; the shoulder is just bandaged.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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