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clothe
/ kləʊð /
verb
- to dress or attire (a person)
- to provide with clothing or covering
- to conceal or disguise
- to endow or invest
Other Words From
- half-clothed adjective
- pre·clothe verb (used with object) preclothed preclothing
- re·clothe verb (used with object) reclothed or reclad reclothing
- under·clothed adjective
- well-clothed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of clothe1
Example Sentences
Err on the side of caution and take your blanket out after a maximum of about 15 minutes and finish the rest of the drying on a clothes rack.
She’d been holding things down at her marketing job, making sure her two kids were logged in for virtual school and keeping her family clothed and fed and virus-free.
I quit my gym because I couldn’t get far enough away from my fellow gym goers not to smell them, their breath and their clothes.
The wool-clad wolves used two methods to compromise people’s machines.
When we moved in, I put neatly labeled cardboard boxes up there, holding our high school mementos, college textbooks, unused wedding gifts and out-of-season clothes.
She details how he, for many years, wanted no one but her to wash, clothe, and feed him.
The Daily Pic: Phil Collins shows how the toughest style can clothe a heart of gold.
As PJ O'Rourke once remarked, "The biblical injunction is to clothe the poor, not style them."
It is to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the wretched poor into your home; when you see the naked, to clothe him.
After all, I could barely bathe, feed, or clothe my widowed self.
Furnivall, pp. 33-35; he says it is 'frised or perled cloothe of gold,' or 'a weued clothe of gold.'
God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
Linen is still made there; and by 'clothe of Reynes' some kind of linen, rather than of woollen cloth, is meant.
Great pine forests clothe their lower slopes, and a green-stained river leaps roaring out of the midst of them.
He was partly supported by a slave woman, and was content to clothe himself with vestments taken from the dead.
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