1. to wrap or bind with cloth or bandages
2. to envelop or surround completely

1. a long strip of cloth used for wrapping or binding
2. a broad strip or area of something

Examples

• The nurse swathed the patient’s injured arm in clean bandages.
• Fog swathed the entire valley in a thick gray blanket.
• She wrapped the baby in soft swathes of cotton.
• A swathe of wildflowers covered the hillside.
• The mummy was swathed in layers of linen cloth.
• Morning mist swathed the mountain peaks.
• The farmer cut a wide swathe through the wheat field.