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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
clothe       [klohth] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), clothed or clad, cloth·ing.
1.to dress; attire.
2.to provide with clothing.
3.to cover with or as with clothing.

[Origin: bef. 950; ME clothen, OE clāthian, deriv. of clāth cloth]

1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
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clothe       (klōth)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   clothed or clad (klād), cloth·ing, clothes
  1. To put clothes on; dress.
  2. To provide clothes for.
  3. To cover as if with clothing.


[Middle English clothen, from Old English clāthian, from clāth, cloth.]

Synonyms: These verbs mean to cover as if with clothes: trees clothed in leafy splendor; mist that cloaks the mountains; a beam draped with cobwebs; a boulder mantled with moss; snow robing fields and gardens.

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
clothe 
O.E. claþian (see cloth).

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clothe

verb
1. provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [ant: discase
2. furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn: invest
3. cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees" 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Clothe

Clothe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothedor 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Clothe

Clothe\, v. i. To wear clothes. [Poetic]

Care no more to clothe eat. --Shak.

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