clothe
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- 11
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- 12
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Definition of clothe
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
“to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly”
“Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
“The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.”
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verb
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(transitive)To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
“to feed and clothe a family; to clothe oneself extravagantly”
“Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
“The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.”
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(figuratively)To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
“to clothe somebody with authority or power”
“language in which they can clothe their thoughts”
“His sides are clothed with waving wood.”
“words clothed in reason's garb”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English clothen, from Old English *clāþian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþōną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.
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