Clothe

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clothe \Clothe\, v. i.
     To wear clothes. [Poetic]
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           Care no more to clothe eat.              --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clothe \Clothe\ (kl[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clothed}
     (kl[=o][th]d) or {Clad} (kl[a^]d); 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.
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              Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. --Shak.
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     2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family;
        to clothe one's self extravagantly.
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              Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. --Prov.
                                                    xxiii. 21.
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              The naked every day he clad,
              When he put on his clothes.           --Goldsmith.
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     3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe
        one with authority or power.
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              Language in which they can clothe their thoughts.
                                                    --Watts.
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              His sides are clothed with waving wood. --J. Dyer.
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              Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's
              garb.                                 --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clothe
       v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed
            and dress their child" [syn: {dress}, {enclothe}, {garb},
             {raiment}, {tog}, {garment}, {habilitate}, {fit out}, {apparel}]
            [ant: {undress}]
       2: furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn:
          {invest}, {adorn}]
       [also: {clad}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "clothe":
     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