verb
- to remove bandages, wrappings, or swaddling clothes from
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The nurse carefully unswathed the patient’s injured arm.
- She unswathed the newborn baby for examination.
- The archaeologist slowly unswathed the ancient mummy.
- The doctor unswathed the wound to check for infection.
- They unswathed the precious artifact from its protective cloth.
- The mother unswathed her infant to change the diaper.