CLOTHE


Meaning of CLOTHE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈklōth ]

transitive verb

( clothed or clad ˈklad ; cloth·ing )

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clāthian, from clāth

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.