clothe
to dress; attire.
to provide with clothing.
to cover with or as with clothing.
Origin of clothe
1Other words for clothe
Other words from clothe
- half-clothed, adjective
- pre·clothe, verb (used with object), pre·clothed, pre·cloth·ing.
- re·clothe, verb (used with object), re·clothed or re·clad, re·cloth·ing.
- un·der·clothed, adjective
- well-clothed, adjective
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How to use clothe in a sentence
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.
Best heated throw blanket: Bundle up with these electric blankets | PopSci Commerce Team | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe’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.
‘Oh, we’re still in this.’ The pandemic wall is here. | Maura Judkis | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostI 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.
I’m autistic. I’m hoping I can wear a mask for the rest of my life. | Christine M. Condo | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostThe 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.
The pandemic gave me the time to finally clean out my shameful attic. Here’s what I learned. | Jura Koncius | January 21, 2021 | Washington Post
She details how he, for many years, wanted no one but her to wash, clothe, and feed him.
The Other Side of Stephen Hawking: Strippers, Aliens, and Disturbing Abuse Claims | Marlow Stern | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
On African Refugees and Jewish Heartlessness | Emily L. Hauser | September 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter 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.'
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerGod will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousLinen is still made there; and by 'clothe of Reynes' some kind of linen, rather than of woollen cloth, is meant.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerGreat pine forests clothe their lower slopes, and a green-stained river leaps roaring out of the midst of them.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossHe was partly supported by a slave woman, and was content to clothe himself with vestments taken from the dead.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas Inman
British Dictionary definitions for clothe
/ (kləʊð) /
to dress or attire (a person)
to provide with clothing or covering
to conceal or disguise
to endow or invest
Origin of clothe
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