bandage

1. 1.

   a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body

   Synonymspatch

   Broaderdressing

   Narroweradhesive bandagecapeline bandagecastcompression bandageelastic bandagefour-tailed bandageimmovable bandageoblique bandageroller bandagesling

   Partsgauze

Other forms of bandage

plural

bandages·

past tense

bandaged·

present participle

bandaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bandage

What does bandage mean?

bandage means "wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bandage?

bandage has 2 syllables: ban-dage. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbændɪdʒ/.

What is another word for bandage?

Close synonyms include bind, patch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bandage a common word?

bandage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.