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English Dictionary: clothed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
clothed
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): clothed, clad
    Antonym(s): unclothed
  2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf- clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"
    Synonym(s): cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clothe \Clothe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clothed}[or] {Clad}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Clothing}.] [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS.
      cl[be][eb]ian, cl[91][eb]an. See {Cloth}.]
      1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
  
                     Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. --Shak.
  
      2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family;
            to clothe one's self extravagantly.
  
                     Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. --Prov.
                                                                              xxiii. 21.
  
                     The naked every day he clad, When he put on his
                     clothes.                                             --Goldsmith.
  
      3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe
            one with authority or power.
  
                     Language in which they can clothe their thoughts.
                                                                              --Watts.
  
                     His sides are clothed with waving wood. --J. Dyer.
  
                     Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's
                     garb.                                                --Milton.
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