v.
Pronunciation: ' kl ō th
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: clothed or clad \ ' klad \ ; cloth · ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cl ā thian, from cl ā th
Date: before 12th century
1 a : to cover with or as if with cloth or clothing : DRESS b : to provide with clothes <the cost of feeding and clothing a family>
2 : to express or enhance by suitably significant language : COUCH <treaties clothed in stately phraseology>
3 : to endow especially with power or a quality <the nobility in which religion and history can clothe humanity ― D.R. Wallace>