clothe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb provide with clothes or put clothes on
    enclothe; garment; fit out; garb; raiment; apparel; habilitate; dress; tog.
    • Parents must feed and dress their child
  2. verb furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
    invest; adorn.
  3. verb cover as if with clothing
    robe; drape; cloak.
    • the mountain was clothed in tropical trees

WordNet

Clothe transitive verb
Etymology
OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. clathian, clæthan. See Cloth.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Clothed ∨ Clad ; present participle & verbal noun Clothing
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To wear clothes. Poetic
    Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Webster 1913