bandage

A strip of cloth wrapped around an injured part of the body to cover or support it.

• The nurse changed my bandage.
• He had a bandage around his knee.
• Keep the bandages clean and dry.

How to use it: bandage around/on something (She wore a bandage around her wrist.)

Similar words: dressing

Common phrases: a clean bandage, bandage around something, elastic bandage

A temporary answer to a problem that does not properly solve it.

• This plan is just a bandage.
• The payment provides a temporary bandage for the crisis.
• We need lasting solutions instead of more bandages.

How to use it: bandage for/on something (Extra funding is only a bandage for a much larger problem.)

Similar words: stopgap, temporary fix

Common phrases: temporary bandage, bandage for something, bandage on something

To wrap cloth around an injured body part to cover or support it.

• Please bandage my finger.
• She cleaned and bandaged the wound.
• He bandaged his ankle before walking home.

How to use it: bandage something up (The nurse bandaged my hand up.)

Similar words: dress, wrap

Common phrases: bandage a wound, bandage an ankle, bandage someone up