CLOTHED

clothed, clad

(adjective) 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”

cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

clothed

simple past tense and past participle of clothe

Adjective

clothed (not comparable)

Wearing clothes or clothing.

Synonyms

• clad, dressed, raimented; see also clothed

Etymology 2

Adjective

clothed (not comparable)

Covered with a cloth.

a white-clothed table

Source: Wiktionary


CLOTHE

Clothe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothed ( or Clad; p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] Etym: [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. cla\'ebian, clæ\'eban. See Cloth.]

1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

Clothe, v. i.

Definition: To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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