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

  clothed \clothed\ adj.
     1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: {adorned(predicate),
        bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked
        out(predicate)}; {appareled, attired, clad, dressed,
        garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed}; {arrayed,
        panoplied}; {breeched, pantalooned, trousered};


        {bundled-up}; {caparisoned}; {cassocked}: {costumed}:
        {decent}] [Narrower terms: {dight}] [Narrower terms:
        {dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to
        kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up}]
        [Narrower terms: {gowned}] [Narrower terms: {habited}]
        [Narrower terms: {heavy-coated}] [Narrower terms:
        {overdressed}] [Narrower terms: {petticoated}] [Narrower
        terms: {red-coated, lobster-backed}] [Narrower terms:
        {surpliced}] [Narrower terms: {togged dressed esp in smart
        clothes)}] [Narrower terms: {turned out}] [Narrower terms:
        {underdressed}] [Narrower terms: {uniformed}] [Narrower
        terms: {vestmented}] Also See: {adorned}, {decorated}.
        Antonym: {unclothed}.
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     2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
        fog-cloaked meadows
  
     Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.
          [WordNet 1.5]

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]:

  clothed
       adj 1: wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in
              combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible;
              "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in
              white"; "white-clad nurses" [syn: {clad}] [ant: {unclothed}]
       2: covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak;
          "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam
          draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks" [syn: {cloaked},
           {draped}, {mantled}, {wrapped}]

















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