| Pronunciation: | | klowdh
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| Matching Terms: | | cloth, cloth cap, cloth covering, clothed, clothes, clothes basket, clothes closet, clothes designer, clothes drier, clothes dryer, clothes hamper, clothes hanger, clothes moth, clothes peg, clothes pin, clothesbrush, clotheshorse, clothesless, clothesline, clothespin, clothespress, clothier, clothing, clothing store, clotho, clothred
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- [v] provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"
- [v] furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
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| | Synonyms: | | adorn, apparel, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, invest, raiment, tog |
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| | Antonyms: | | discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| | See Also: | | change state, coat, corset, costume, cover, dress up, equip, fit, fit out, frock, gown, habit, jacket, outfit, overclothe, overdress, prim, prim out, prim up, robe, shirt, shoe, turn, vest, vesture, wrap up |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Clothe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clothed}or {Clad}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Clothing}.] [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS.
cl[=a][eth]ian, cl[ae][eth]an. See {Cloth}.]
1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. --Shak.
2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family;
to clothe one's self extravagantly.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. --Prov.
xxiii. 21.
The naked every day he clad, When he put on his
clothes. --Goldsmith.
3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe
one with authority or power.
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts.
--Watts.
His sides are clothed with waving wood. --J. Dyer.
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's
garb. --Milton.
\Clothe\, v. i.
To wear clothes. [Poetic]
Care no more to clothe eat. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | accommodate, accouter, afford, apparel, apply to, arm, array, attire, authorize, bedeck, bedrape, blanket, block, bundle up, canopy, caparison, clad, cloak, clothe with power, cloud, contribute, cope, costume, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, deck, deputize, dight, do up, donate, drape, dress, dress up, dud, eclipse, empower, enable, enclothe, endow, endue, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, equip, fill, fill up, film, find, fit out, fit up, fund, furnish, garb, garment, give, habilitate, hood, invest, keep, lap, lay on, lay over, maintain, make available, make provision for, mantle, mask, muffle, muffle up, obduce, obscure, occult, outfit, overlay, overspread, prepare, present, provide, provide for, put on, rag out, raiment, recruit, replenish, rig out, robe, screen, scum, sheathe, shield, shroud, spread over, stock, store, subsidize, superimpose, superpose, supply, support, swaddle, swathe, tire, veil, wrap, wrap up, yield |
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