Antonyms for sheath
ʃiθ; ʃiðzsheath

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1. sheathnoun

   Antonyms:
   unsheath

2. sheathverb

   To put an object (especially a weapon, in particular, a sword) into its sheath.

   Synonyms:
   scabbard

   Antonyms:
   unsheath

Matched Categories

1. • Dress
   • Natural Covering
   • Protective Covering

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1. sheathnoun

   a protective covering (as for a knife or sword)

   Synonyms:
   case, cocktail dress

2. sheath, casenoun

   an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part

   Synonyms:
   typeface, pillowcase, type, face, suit, font, slip, instance, compositor's case, casing, caseful, cocktail dress, pillow slip, case, example, event, display case, showcase, guinea pig, shell, fount, vitrine, typesetter's case, cause, character, lawsuit, causa, grammatical case, eccentric, subject

3. cocktail dress, sheathnoun

   a dress suitable for formal occasions

   Synonyms:
   case, cocktail dress

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1. sheathnoun

   Synonyms:
   case, scabbard, covering

How to use sheath in a sentence?

1. Lord Byron:

   For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breathe, And love itself have rest

2. Rajveer Purohit:

   You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior

4. President Muhammadu Buhari:

   I want to call on the militants to sheath their weapons and embrace dialogue with government, we are making contacts with everybody who is involved, the ones that we can identify, through them, the ones that we can't identify so that there is a lot more inclusiveness in this dialogue.

5. Jennifer Cutrona:

   The little pocket knives I had collected over the years were all at home in the drawer with my pepper spray. I needed something I could pull in less than a second, i sewed a knife sheath into the layers of my sports bra. I put it back on and realized it worked wonderfully. My confidence was back. I was not trying to come up with something that would kill. Just something that would give me a few seconds to get away.

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