swathe

[US]/sweɪð/
[UK]/sweɪð/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to surround; to bind tightly; to wrap
n. a bandage, strip; a wrapping or covering
Word Forms
Pluralswathes
Past Tenseswathed
Past Participleswathed
Third Person Singularswathes
Present Participle

Phrases & Collocations

swathe of fabric

swathe of land

Example Sentences

a significant swathe of popular opinion.

vast swathes of countryside.

The new road cut a swathe through the countryside.

His head was swathed in bandages.

her leg was swathed in bandages.

a cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbons.

the combine had cut a deep swathe around the border of the fields.

his hands were swathed in bandages.

Aids has cut a swathe through battalions of ordinary people.

A doctor swathed in protective gear checks a patient in Manchuria during the 1910-11 outbreak of pneumatic plague, the last before the discovery of sulpha drugs in 1933.

Real-world Examples

His armies had cut a swathe through Christian Europe.

Source: BBC documentary "Civilization"

Every year, fires ravage more swathes of the rain forest.

Source: Environment and Science

But the case by case system leaves large swathes of Americans uncovered.

Source: The story of origin

China's heat waves have blanketed large swathes of the country this year.

Source: Intermediate English short passage

Huge swathes of land, farms and towns, remain underwater.

Source: PBS Interview Environmental Series

Now, gentlemen, frankly, this Department has got to cut a great swathe through all this stuffy Whitehall bureaucracy.

Source: Yes, Minister Season 1

They swathed their too much power.

Source: Selected Literary Poems

Radar and satellites can cover swathes of land, yet they lack detail.

Source: The Economist - Technology

Whole swathes of the nation seeped in practices aliens of the American occupiers.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

Then, in the 1950s, the government nationalised great swathes of forests, presenting further obstacles to their nomadic life.

Source: Selected English short passages

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