clothe
verb
ˈklōt͟h 
clothed or clad ˈklad ; clothing
; clothing transitive verb
1
a
: 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
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Synonyms
- apparel
- array
- attire
- bedeck
- caparison
- costume
- deck (out)
- do up
- dress
- dress up
- enrobe
- garb
- garment
- get up
- gown
- habit
- invest
- rig (out)
- robe
- suit
- tog (up or out)
- toilet
- vesture
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
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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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 4 July 2022 The nonprofit also helps neighboring Assistance League chapters clothe children of military families at Camp Pendleton. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022 The nonprofit also helps neighboring Assistance League chapters clothe children of military families at Camp Pendleton. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022 At a price of 71 cents a pound, Ms. Lira was on her way to collecting a haul big enough to clothe most of her 13 grandchildren at Ludy’s Ropa Usada in downtown McAllen. New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022 It’s that mixture of brine, fish, digestion, rancid oil, and Death — an aggressive smell that will clothe me for weeks after. Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022 The nonprofit also helps neighboring Assistance League chapters clothe children of military families at Camp Pendleton. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022 As for the costumes, The Fifth Element team had to think of how to clothe Jovovich during her birth scene. Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 May 2022 The nonprofit also helps neighboring Assistance League chapters clothe children of military families at Camp Pendleton. Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English clāthian, from clāth
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Kids Definition
clothe
verb
ˈklōt͟h
clothed or clad
ˈklad
; clothing 1
: to cover with or as if with clothing : dress
2
: to provide with clothes
clothed 1 of 2
adjective
as in dressed
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dressed
- garbed
- clad
- robed
- attired
- covered
- appareled
- suited
- veiled
- invested
- apparelled
- arrayed
- caparisoned
- vested
- tricked (out)
- decked (out)
- rigged (out)
- decent
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- naked
- unclothed
- nude
- undressed
- stripped
- bare
- unclad
- disrobed
- raw
- bottomless
- starkers
- topless
- seminude
- au naturel
- peeled
- mother-naked
- denuded
clothed
2 of 2verb
variants or clad
1
as in draped
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes they liked to clothe the twins in identical outfits just to confuse people Synonyms & Similar Words
- dressed
- draped
- garbed
- attired
- robed
- costumed
- gowned
- garmented
- habited
- toileted
- bedecked
- outfitted
- enrobed
- appareled
- arrayed
- caparisoned
- apparelled
- cloaked
- suited
- vestured
- wrapped
- got up
- frocked
- dressed up
- mantled
- swaddled
- swathed
- furnished
- invested
- jacketed
- vested
- equipped
- did up
- decked (out)
- accoutred
- uniformed
- huddled
- togged (up or out)
- tailored
- rigged (out)
- underdressed
- enswathed
- accoutered
- bedight
- habilitated
- dressed down
- happed
- bedighted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- stripped
- undressed
- unclothed
- disrobed
- stript
- denuded
- uncovered
- divested
- disarrayed
- unveiled
- untrussed
- undraped
2
as in stated
to convey in appropriate or telling terms regulations clothed in obscure terminology Synonyms & Similar Words
- stated
- expressed
- formulated
- couched
- summarized
- articulated
- phrased
- disclosed
- worded
- implied
- described
- crafted
- said
- translated
- put
- rendered
- spoke
- hinted
- framed
- intimated
- suggested
- uttered
- restated
- communicated
- verbalized
- paraphrased
- talked
- insinuated
- rephrased
- told
- vocalized
- reworded
- wrote up