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A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- […]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
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A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
- […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off
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A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.broadlyfiguratively
- This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
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To apply a bandage to something.
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