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unswathe

/uhn-swoth, -sweyth/US // ʌnˈswɒð, -ˈsweɪð //

弃权,弃置,弃车保帅,弃车

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    un·swathed, un·swath·ing.

    • : to free from something that swathes: to unswath the child of her bandages.

Examples

  • This lamentation caused Joshua to unswathe the bandage about his eyes and he groaned louder and longer.

  • "I will wait till to-morrow," said Northwick, and he began to unswathe and unbutton, but so feebly that Bird noticed.

  • Why should they not unswathe the world from its swaddling-clothes before an audience which would fill our largest halls?

  • Living beings were about to appear, pillagers of tombs, no doubt, come to unswathe them all!