clothe

verb

\ ˈklōt͟h

clothed or clad\ ˈklad

\; clothing

Definition of clothe

transitive verb

1a : to cover with or as if with cloth or clothing : dress

b : to provide with clothes the cost of feeding and clothing a family

2 : to express or enhance by suitably significant language : couch treaties clothed in stately phraseology

3 : to endow especially with power or a quality the nobility in which religion and history can clothe humanity— D. R. Wallace

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the cost of feeding and clothing your children they liked to clothe the twins in identical outfits just to confuse people

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Tallulah Bankhead once dived fully clothed into the pool; her beaded dress weighed her down, obliging her to ditch the garment and emerge from the water naked. — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, "Inside Frank Gehry's Overhaul of Garden of Allah, L.A.’s Most Infamous Corner," 25 Feb. 2019 Lady Gaga gives us a whole nine-and-a-half minutes in the hottest women’s prison ever, including studded bikini clad inmates and tattoos galore. — Nicole Demarco And Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, "14 Sexy Music Videos You Definitely Shouldn't Watch at Work," 2 Nov. 2018 Now police are trying to find out what happened to the baby, whose remains were clothed and wrapped in a blanket, KSAT reported. — Natalie Dreier, ajc, "Drug raid leads police to baby’s body in trunk," 5 July 2018 Supporters have said he isn't clothed in Confederate dress and should be viewed through a historical lens and put in the proper context of his era. — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, "Mayor should yank statue of ex-Confederate soldier, councilman says," 2 July 2018 Costume designer Holly Poe Durban outfits Falstaff with a convincing fat suit and an unkempt silvery mane befitting a vagrant, while clothing the rest of the cast in period-appropriate early-15th-century togs. — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Henry IV': Theater Review," 9 June 2018 In all three appearances, Trump appears briefly and he, as well as the models on camera alongside him, are fully clothed. — Christopher Massie, CNN, "Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible. Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos.," 7 June 2018 The table features slim, steel legs and a wood top clad in veneer cut from pieces of petrified wood, a fossilized material which is up to 225 million years old. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "This Table Is 100 Million Years Old," 10 Apr. 2019 Officers found the man nearby at the library, where he was fully clothed and using a computer. — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, "Fatal crash reported along US 26 near Manning," 19 Mar. 2018

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