swaddle /'swodl; 'swadl/ vt [VP6A] bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth (as was formerly the custom). 以襁廠包裹 (嬰兒) (如昔日風(fēng)俗所為); 縛裹。 'swaddling-clothes, the strips of cloth used: 富褓： still in his swaddling-clothes, (fig) still not free from restraining influences. (喻) 仍在極褓中; 仍受束縛或支配。