swaddle• Not surprising since the industry itself was still in swaddling clothes.• It is a birthswaddled in deception, whose secret will not be shared by those most affected until decades have passed.• Where once this corner of the island was swaddled in green, a lunarlandscape now stands.• I can only suggest, Bill, that you swaddle them both and keep them immobilised for a week.• Each morning I swaddled them in cottonwool and boxes of Band-Aids.
Originswaddle
(1400-1500) Probably from sweddle“to swaddle”((13-17 centuries)), from Old Englishswethel“swaddling clothes”