释义
[ klohth ] SHOW IPA
/ kloʊð / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with object), clothed or clad, cloth·ing. to dress; attire.
to provide with clothing.
to cover with or as with clothing.
Origin of clothe before 950; Middle English clothen, Old English clāthian, derivative of clāth cloth
SYNONYMS FOR clothe 1 robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
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OTHER WORDS FROM clothe half-clothed, adjective pre·clothe, verb (used with object), pre·clothed, pre·cloth·ing. re·clothe, verb (used with object), re·clothed or re·clad, re·cloth·ing. un·der·clothed, adjective
well-clothed, adjective
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH clothe cloth, clothe , clothes Words nearby clothe closure principle, clot, cloth, clothbound, cloth-cap, clothe , cloth-eared, clothes, clothesbasket, clotheshorse, clothesline
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Example sentences from the Web for clothe She details how he, for many years, wanted no one but her to wash, clothe , and feed him.
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As PJ O'Rourke once remarked, "The biblical injunction is to clothe the poor, not style them."
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It is to share your bread with the hungry, and to take the wretched poor into your home; when you see the naked, to clothe him.
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After all, I could barely bathe, feed, or clothe my widowed self.
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It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches | Various
Of their own efforts they had merely to clothe themselves and pay the rent of their quarters.
The Unwilling Vestal | Edward Lucas White
Clothe me in the true wedding garment, that I may appear at Thy heavenly board a worthy guest.
Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week | John Habermann
One day, I remember, two boys came in, and we had everything to clothe them with except a jacket for one of them.
In Answer to Prayer | W. Boyd Carpenter
Washington's army naturally looked with contempt upon a Government that could not feed or clothe its own soldiers.
Beginnings of the American People | Carl Lotus Becker
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British Dictionary definitions for clothe verb clothes , clothing , clothed or clad (tr) to dress or attire (a person)
to provide with clothing or covering
to conceal or disguise
to endow or invest
Word Origin for clothe Old English clāthian, from clāth cloth ; related to Old Norse klætha
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