Clothe

Definition: Clothe

Clothe

Verb

1. Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child".

2. Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clothe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Clothe

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Phrase

Verb: express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub.

Crosswords: Clothe

I'msorry that I took your money out of your little box, when I feed you and clothe you and put a roof over your head (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

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Books

• Clothe Your Spirit: Dressing for Self-Expression (reference)

• Clothe Yourself in Summer (reference)

• How to Clothe Your Family (reference)

• Luigi Pirandello: Collected Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, All for the Best, Clothe the Naked, Limes from Sicily (reference)

• Make and Clothe Your Own Dollhouse Dolls (reference)

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Join a sheep club Twenty sheep to equip and clothe each soldier / / HS. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He, Jean Valjean, he had taken her away from those rags to clothe her in this mourning garb

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Children

Hungary

Furthermore, the extreme poverty of many Roma makes it difficult for them to clothe their children appropriately for school. (references)

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Expression using "clothe": best clothe. Additional references.

Ending with "clothe": re-clothe.

Afrikaans

klee (dress), pas (be appropriate, be suitable, conform, dress, Easter, exclusively, fit, fit in, just, only, suit), bekleed (cover, dress, overlay), beklee (cover, dress, occupy, overlay, take). (various references)

Albanian

vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), shpreh (bid, breathe, couch, embody, express, express oneself, extend, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, profess, put, put forward, say, speak, utter), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), mbështjell (coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا (array, attire, cake, coat, cover, drape, dress, encase, endue, equip, face, fur, garb, garment, gird, glaze, invest, overlay, panel, plate, rig out, robe, sheathe, spread, suit, turn out), ‏لبس (array, attire, dress, get dressed, panel, robe, tog, vest, wear, wore, worn), ‏زود بملا بس, ‏زود بصلاحية, ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice). (various references)

Basque

jantzi (clothe to, dress to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обличам (accouter, accoutre, attire, coat, deck, dress, dress up, endue, garb, garment, get on, gird, habit, invest, pull on, pull over, put on, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), прикривам (conceal, cover, disguise, fog, hide, hide away, sink, varnish), покривам (bestride, cap, case, coat, cope, cover, cover up, deck, defray, do over, encase, encrust, enshroud, film, horse, invest, mantle, overcast, overlay, overlie, overspread, pave, pit, pustulate, sheet, surmount, vesture, wreathe), изразявам (articulate, carve, conceive, convey, couch, express, import, phrase, put, render, signify), давам пълномощия на. (various references)

Chinese 

穿衣 (Clothed). (various references)

Czech

obléknout. (various references)

Dutch

omkleden (dress), kleden (dress), aankleden (dress, furnish). (various references)

Esperanto

vesti (dress). (various references)

Faeroese

lata í (dress). (various references)

Farsi 

پوشاندن (Apparel, Blanket, Camouflage, Case, Coat, Cover, Emboss, Envelop, Immerse, Jacket, Line, Mask, Overcast, Sheath, Sheathe, Shroud, Submerge, Suffuse, Veil), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim). (various references)

Finnish

verhota (cover, envelop, screen, wrap up line), vaatettaa (dress), pukea (dress). (various references)

French

vêtir, habiller (clean and truss, cloth). (various references)

Frisian

oanklaaie (dress), de klean oandwaan (dress). (various references)

German

kleiden (attire, couch, dress, endue, suit), einkleiden (accouter, couch, fit out, invest, kit out, kit up), bekleiden (attire, bestow, cover, dress, endue, fill, hold, occupy, take, vest), bekleide, ankleiden (dress, dressing, robe). (various references)

Greek 

σκεπάζω (blanket, cloak, contend over, cover, cover over, curtain, mantle, muffle, screen, shroud, top), ντύνω (accouter, accoutre, apparel, dress), ενδύω (accoutre, attire, costume, dress, endue, garb, invest, rig, robe, vasty, vest). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללבוש (cover, dress, put on, tog, wear), לעטוף (cloak, cover, envelop, fold up, swaddle, swathe, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), להלביש (dress, habilitate, robe, tog). (various references)

Hungarian

beborít (bedeck, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, mantle, overcast, overlaid, overlay, to cloak, to coat, to cope, to deck, to do over, to encrust, to enfold, to engulf, to enshroud, to envelop, to overlay, to weather-board, to wrap), öltöztet (attire, clad, dress, to accoutre, to apparel, to attire, to clothe, to garb). (various references)

Indonesian

membeli sandang. (various references)

Italian

vestire (attire, attract, be dressed, cloth, dress, get dressed, make smb.'s clothes, put on, rig, rig out, to attract, tog, wear). (various references)

Korean 

입으십시요. (various references)

Manx

cur mysh (attire, don, draw on, dress), cur eaddagh er (apparel, dress). (various references)

Occitan

vestir (dress). (various references)

Papago

enigadath (to clothe). (various references)

Papiamen

bisti (dress). (various references)

Pig Latin

otheclay.(various references)

Polish

ubierać (dress). (various references)

Portuguese

vestir (accoutre, apparel, attire, costume, cover, don, dress, endue, enrobe, garb, habit, invest, put on, robe, to dress, vesture, wear), revestir (braze, case, coat, drape, encase, endue, enrobe, face, fit out, garnish, incase, indue, jacket, overlay, plaster, prank, revet, robe, trim, vesture), cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, suffuse, to collect, to cover, top, wrap). (various references)

Romanian

se înveşmânta, se îmbrãca (dress), îmbråca (dress). (various references)

Russian 

одевать (accoutre, array, dress, garb, habilitate, habit, invest, tog, vesture). (various references)

Scottish

còmhdaich (allege, dress), éid (array). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokrivati (cover, overspread), oblačiti (bring clouds, dress, habit). (various references)

Spanish

vestir (apparel, cover, dress, get up, overlay, robe, wear). (various references)

Swazi

ku-gcokîsa (to clothe). (various references)

Swedish

kläda (coat, drape, dress, habit, robe). (various references)

Turkish

zenginleştirmek (enrich, prosper), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), renklendirmek (color, colour, stain, tinge, variegate), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, coat, cover, encrust, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, overwhelm, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, sheet, shield, smother in, smother with, suffuse, take, thread, upholster, veneer, wreathe), giysi sağlamak, giydirmek (array, attire, doll out, doll up, Don, dress, enrobe, equip, garb, invest, revet, rig out, robe, turn out, vesture), güzel bir dille anlatmak, bürümek (cover up, infest, suffuse, wrap), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, lap, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap). (various references)

Ukrainian

укривати (bespread), убирати (absorb, sop), оснашувати, одягати (apparel, array, attire, costume, dress, enrobe, garb, gown, habit), наділяти (confer, deal out, endue, gird, portion, vest), покривати (buck, ceil, coat, cope, cover, cover with, dab, lay over, mantle, strew, suffuse). (various references)

Welsh

dilladu. (various references)

amici, amicietur, amicis, amicitur, amicta, amicti, amictos, amictu, amictum, amictus, comas, comes, induam, induamini, induamur, induantur, induar, induaris, induebant, induebar, induebatur, induens, induentes, induentur, induere, induerent, induerentur, indueretur, indueris, induerit, induerunt, indues, induet, induetur, indueturque, indui, induimur, induit, induite, induta, induti, indutis, indutum, indutumque, indutus, indutusque, induunt, superindui, supervestiri, vestiantur, vestiebant, vestiebantur, vestiebat, vestiebatur, vestient, vestientur, vestienturque, vestieris, vestierunt, vestiesque, vestietur, vestire, vestiri, vestis, vestissent, vestisti, vestit, vestita, vestitae, vestiti, vestitos, vestitu, vestitum, vestitus, vestitusque, vestiunt, vestiuntur, vestivi, vestivit, vestivitque. (various references)

scrydan. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "clothe": clothed, clothes, clotheshorse, clotheshorses, clothesline, clotheslined, clotheslines, clotheslining, clothespin, clothespins, clothespress, clothespresses. (additional references)

Words ending with "clothe": beclothe, reclothe, unclothe. (additional references)

Words containing "clothe": beclothed, beclothes, bedclothes, nightclothes, plainclothes, plainclothesman, plainclothesmen, reclothed, reclothes, smallclothes, unclothed, unclothes, underclothes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Clothe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calathea, clath, clathe, cleithan, clete, clite, cloath, Cloghie, Clootie, Cloten, clother, Clouth, cluth, Clutha, Cluther, Clyth, Clytha, Colte, Coltham, Colthorp, Conthe, coth, Cothi, lothe, slothe. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cloth, helot, hotel, letch, thole.

-2 letters: celt, clot, cole, colt, cote, echo, etch, helo, hole, holt, lech, loch, loth, tole.

-3 letters: cel, col, cot, eth, het, hoe, hot, let, lot, ole, tel, the, tho, toe.

-4 letters: eh, el, et, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, to.

+1 letter: cholate, cholent, chortle, clothed, clothes.

+2 letters: beclothe, blotched, blotches, catechol, chelator, chlorate, chlorite, cholates, cholents, chortled, chortler, chortles, clothier, eolithic, eschalot, helicopt, oothecal, potlache, reclothe, selcouth, trochlea, unclothe.

+3 letters: beclothed, beclothes, blotchier, catchpole, catechols, cerecloth, charlotte, chelation, chelators, chlorates, chlorites, chocolate, chortlers, clothiers, decathlon, eschalots, facecloth, helicopts, hemolytic, homiletic, neolithic, photocell, pitchpole, plethoric, potlaches, reclothed, reclothes, splotched, splotches, theologic, touchable, touchhole, touchline, tracheole, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, unclothed, unclothes.