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[ UK /klˈə‍ʊð/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫoʊð/ ]
VERB
  1. provide with clothes or put clothes on
    Parents must feed and dress their child
  2. cover as if with clothing
    the mountain was clothed in tropical trees
  3. furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

How To Use clothe In A Sentence

  • In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
  • I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
  • His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
  • He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
  • At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
  • The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.
  • Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
  • A couple of plain-clothes men had been sniffing round his apartment.
  • Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
  • Meanwhile, the sister is trying to maintain standards and dignity, washing her clothes and covering her body.
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