Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: clothe
IPA transcription: [kl'oʊð]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit_out, apparel
    Meaning: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"
  • Synonyms: invest, clothe, adorn
    Meaning: furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
Usage examples
  • If ye allow me aught to clothe me, 'twill be of your bounty, and each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself.
  • And Henriot next realised that these Magnitudes in which this group-energy sought to clothe itself as visible form, were curiously familiar.
  • It cost so much money to clothe them that she decided to dress them all alike, so that they looked like the children of a regular orphan asylum.
  • I noticed, however, that no one pretended to clothe himself from any particular suit, but took a sleeve from one, a cape from another, a skirt from a third, thus decking himself out piecemeal, while some of his original rags would peep out from among his borrowed finery.