un-swathe

un·swathe

[uhn-swoth, -sweyth]
verb (used with object), un·swathed, un·swath·ing.
to free from something that swathes: to unswath the child of her bandages.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English unswaden; see un-2, swathe1

un·swathe·a·ble, adjective
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