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bandage

noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈbæn.dɪd͡ʒ/
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  • CMU ARPABET: B AE1 N D IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, figuratively

Examples

  • This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To apply a bandage to something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: patch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dressing, medical dressing

Narrower terms: adhesive bandage, capeline bandage, cast, plaster cast, plaster bandage, compression bandage, tourniquet, elastic bandage, four-tailed bandage, immovable bandage, oblique bandage, roller bandage, sling, scarf bandage, triangular bandage, suspensory, suspensory bandage, swathe, wrapping, truss

6

verb

Meaning 6

dress by covering or binding

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle
  • bandage an incision

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dress

Narrower terms: ligate

7

verb

Meaning 7

wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bind

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fasten, fix, secure

History

Etymology

Etymology tree French bande Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French bandagebor. English bandage Borrowed from French bandage.

Across languages

Translations

231 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: fashë — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Albanian: fashaturë — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Western Apache: bee bikʼídisdizí — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Arabic: ضِمَادَة (ḍimāda) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Arabic: عِصَابَة (ʕiṣāba) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Armenian: վիրակապ (virakap) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Armenian: բինտ (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Aromanian: fashi — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Aromanian: fashe — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Azerbaijani: bint — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Azerbaijani: bandaj — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Azerbaijani: sarğı — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Azerbaijani: sarıq — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Bashkir: бәйләүес (bəyləwes) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Basque: lotura — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Basque: hesgailu — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Belarusian: бінт (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Belarusian: банда́ж (bandáž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Belarusian: павя́зка (pavjázka) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Bengali: পটি (pṭi) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Bengali: ব্যাণ্ডেজ (bênḍej) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Bulgarian: бинт (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Bulgarian: бандаж (bandaž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Burmese: ပတ်တီး (patti:) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Catalan: bena — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Catalan: embenat — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Cebuano: haklop — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Chinese Mandarin: 繃帶 /绷带 (bēngdài) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Chinese Mandarin: 綁帶 /绑带 (bǎngdài) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Cimbrian: béesa — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Coptic: ⲥⲉⲃⲉⲛ (seben) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Crimean Tatar: bint — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Czech: obvaz — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Czech: fáč — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Czech: obinadlo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Danish: bandage — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Dutch: verband — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Dutch: bandage — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Dutch: zwachtel — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Egyptian: s-b-n:V6 (sbn) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Egyptian: Aa2:t-D40 (wt) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ese: panesia — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Esperanto: bandaĝo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Estonian: haavaside — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Estonian: side — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Fijian: vadreti-taka — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Finnish: side — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • French: bandage — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • French: pansement — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Saterland Frisian: Biende — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Galician: venda — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Georgian: ბანდი (bandi) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Georgian: სახვევი (saxvevi) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • German: Verband — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 (faskja) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Greek: επίδεσμος (epídesmos) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ancient Greek: ἐπίδεσμος (epídesmos) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ancient Greek: κειρία (keiría) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ancient Greek: τελαμών (telamṓn) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hawaiian: wahīʻeha — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hebrew: תַּחְבֹּשֶׁת (takhbóshet) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hindi: पट्टी (paṭṭī) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hindi: पट्टा (paṭṭā) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hungarian: kötszer — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Hungarian: kötés — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Icelandic: umbúðir — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Icelandic: plástur — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ido: bandajo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Indonesian: barut — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Indonesian: balut — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Indonesian: balutan — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Indonesian: bebat — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Indonesian: bebatan — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ingrian: bintta — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Irish: bindealán — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Italian: fasciatura — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Italian: bendaggio — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Italian: benda — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Italian: benderella — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Italian: fascia — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Japanese: 包帯 (hōtai) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Japanese: 繃帯 (hōtai) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Limos Kalinga: bobod — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Kannada: ಕಟ್ಟುಪಟ್ಟಿ (kaṭṭupaṭṭi) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Kazakh: жаратаңғыш (jaratañğyş) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Khmer: ប៉ង់សឺម៉ង់ (pɑngsəɨmɑng) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Khmer: វណវេឋន៍ (vĕəʼnaʼveit) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Korean: 붕대 (bungdae) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Kyrgyz: бинт (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Kyrgyz: бандаж (bandaj) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lao: ພັນຜ້າ (phan phā) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lao: ຜ້າພັນແຜ (phā phan phǣ) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lao: ຜ້າພັນບາດ (phā phan bāt) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lao: ວະນະບັດ (wa na bat) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lao: ວະນະພັນ (wa na phan) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Latin: fascia — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Latin: infula — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Latvian: pārsējs — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lithuanian: bintas — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Lithuanian: tvarstis — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Macedonian: завој (zavoj) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Malay: bebat — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Malay: barut — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Malay: balut — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Maltese: faxxa — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Māori: takai — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Māori: tākaikai — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Māori: tāpi — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Marathi: मलमपट्टी (malampaṭṭī) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Mokilese: ohdai — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Norman: bandage — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bandasje — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bandasje — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Occitan: pensament — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Pashto: پټۍ (paṭəj) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Persian: بانداژ (bândâž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Polish: bandaż — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Portuguese: bandagem — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Portuguese: atadura — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Portuguese: curativo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Portuguese: penso — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Rohingya: faththi — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Romagnol: ziròt — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Romanian: bandaj — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Romanian: fașă — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Romanian: pansament — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Russian: бинт (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Russian: банда́ж (bandáž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Russian: повя́зка (povjázka) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Sanskrit: पट्टिका (paṭṭikā) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Sanskrit: पट्टी (paṭṭī) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Scottish Gaelic: bann — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Serbo-Croatian: завој — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Serbo-Croatian: zavoj — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Slovak: obväz — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Slovak: ovíjadlo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Slovak: ovínadlo — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Slovene: obveza — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Spanish: venda — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Spanish: vendaje — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Swahili: bendeji — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Swahili: plasta — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Swedish: plåster — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Swedish: bandage — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Swedish: förband — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tagalog: bendahan — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tajik: дока (doka) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tajik: бандаж (bandaž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tajik: бинт (bint) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tatar: бәйләвеч (bäyläweç) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Telugu: కట్టు (kaṭṭu) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Thai: ผ้าพัน (pâa-pan) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Thai: ผ้าพันแผล (pâa-pan-plɛ̌ɛ) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tibetan: སྨན་རས (sman ras) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tibetan: རྨ་རས (rma ras) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Tocharian B: śwele — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Turkish: bandaj — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Turkish: sargı — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Turkish: pansuman — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ottoman Turkish: صارغی (sargı) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Turkmen: sarag — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ukrainian: бинт (bynt) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ukrainian: банда́ж (bandáž) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Ukrainian: пов'я́зка (povʺjázka) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Urdu: پٹی (paṭṭī) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Uyghur: تېڭىق (të'ngiq) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Uzbek: bint — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Uzbek: bandaj — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Veps: sideg — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Vietnamese: băng — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Vietnamese: băng giữ — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Vietnamese: băng bó — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Võro: sidõ — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Welsh: rhwymyn — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Yiddish: באַנדאַזש (bandazh) — medical binding made with strip of gauze or similar
  • Finnish: side — strip of cloth bound blindfold
  • Russian: повязка (povjazka) — strip of cloth bound blindfold
  • Finnish: laastari — figuratively: provisional or makeshift solution
  • Norwegian Bokmål: plaster — figuratively: provisional or makeshift solution
  • Russian: костыль (kostylʹ) — figuratively: provisional or makeshift solution
  • Russian: припарка (priparka) — figuratively: provisional or makeshift solution
  • Albanian: fashim — to apply a bandage to something
  • Armenian: վիրակապել (virakapel) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Bulgarian: бинтовам (bintovam) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Bulgarian: превързвам (prevǎrzvam) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Catalan: embenar — to apply a bandage to something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 包紮 /包扎 (bāozā, bāozhā) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Czech: obvazovat — to apply a bandage to something
  • Danish: forbinde — to apply a bandage to something
  • Danish: bandagere — to apply a bandage to something
  • Esperanto: vindi — to apply a bandage to something
  • Finnish: sitoa — to apply a bandage to something
  • Finnish: laastaroida — to apply a bandage to something
  • French: panser — to apply a bandage to something
  • Friulian: infassâ — to apply a bandage to something
  • German: bandagieren — to apply a bandage to something
  • German: verbinden — to apply a bandage to something
  • Hebrew: חָבַשׁ (khavásh) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Ido: bandajizar — to apply a bandage to something
  • Istriot: infasà — to apply a bandage to something
  • Italian: fasciare — to apply a bandage to something
  • Latin: alligō — to apply a bandage to something
  • Lithuanian: aprišti — to apply a bandage to something
  • Lithuanian: bintúoti — to apply a bandage to something
  • Māori: takai — to apply a bandage to something
  • Māori: tākaikai — to apply a bandage to something
  • Māori: tāpi — to apply a bandage to something
  • Norman: panser — to apply a bandage to something
  • Norman: bandagi — to apply a bandage to something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bandasjere — to apply a bandage to something
  • Polish: bandażować — to apply a bandage to something
  • Polish: obandażować — to apply a bandage to something
  • Polish: zabandażować — to apply a bandage to something
  • Portuguese: pensar — to apply a bandage to something
  • Russian: бинтова́ть (bintovátʹ) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Russian: забинтова́ть (zabintovátʹ) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Russian: перебинтова́ть (perebintovátʹ) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Russian: перевя́зывать (perevjázyvatʹ) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Russian: перевяза́ть (perevjazátʹ) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Slovak: obväziť — to apply a bandage to something
  • Spanish: vendar — to apply a bandage to something
  • Swedish: förbinda — to apply a bandage to something
  • Swedish: plåstra — to apply a bandage to something
  • Swedish: lägga om — to apply a bandage to something
  • Swedish: bandagera — to apply a bandage to something
  • Ukrainian: бинтува́ти (byntuváty) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Ukrainian: забинтува́ти (zabyntuváty) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Ukrainian: перев'я́зувати (perevʺjázuvaty) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Ukrainian: перев'яза́ти (perevʺjazáty) — to apply a bandage to something
  • Venetan: infasar — to apply a bandage to something
  • Venetan: fasar — to apply a bandage to something