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# swaddle

«swaddle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to wrap a baby tightly in soft cloth so it cannot move…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (swaddle, swaddles, swaddled, swaddling); noun (swaddling clothes, old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To swaddle is to wrap a baby tightly in soft cloth so it cannot move its arms or legs much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/#m1)

2) Swaddling clothes are the cloths used for this. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a baby is wrapped up and laid in a safe place, as in a stork bringing a swaddled child

### examples

- The mother swaddled the baby in a blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/#x1)
- The stork carried a baby in swaddling clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/#x2)
- Babies were often swaddled tightly long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swaddle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaddle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.