Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: clothed
IPA transcription: [kl'oʊðd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: clothed, clad
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • On the death of Brutus, they all clothed themselves in mourning.
  • They were sitting fully clothed before the fireplace, and three other persons were with them.
  • And there met Sir Galahad an old man clothed in religious clothing, and said: Sir, have here the keys of this castle.
  • Nothing would satisfy him then till he had clothed her suitably, bringing her dresses from the wardrobe for her to choose.
  • The fox, hard run, and nearly spent, first made his appearance from the copse which clothed the right-hand side of the valley.
  • Men uncouthly clothed in shapeless, shiny leather garments, straddled and stretched above him, filling their lungs with the sweet air.
  • Who does not perceive how laughable it is to see a lady who is clothed in satin lace, or velvet, laboriously travelling in the dust or mud.
  • There could be no mistaking it--it was that of Aunt Joanna, clothed in the tattered sheet that Elizabeth Hockin had allowed for her grave-clothes.
  • The Major's fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day's shopping tries on a succession of garments.
  • Propriety requires that we should always be clothed in a cleanly and becoming manner, even in private, in leaving our bed, or in the presence of no one.