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# clothe

«clothe» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put clothes on them, or give them clothes to wear** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (clothe, clothes, clothed, clothing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To clothe someone is to put clothes on them, or give them clothes to wear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#m1)

2) To clothe is to cover something as if with clothes, as in «clothe in the weeds of woe». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, to dress a person or to cover a thing with a thick covering, often of sorrow or mist; «clothe» is also used for giving food and clothes to a family

### examples

- Can you afford to feed and clothe your children? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#x1)
- The king clothed his soldiers in red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#x2)
- The hills were clothed in mist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#x3)
- Clothe yourself warmly before you go out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the birds and clothes the lilies of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/15/)
- [And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.82/)
- [But the spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon; and he blew a horn; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.192/)
- [I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1120/)
- [clothed with blue, governors and rulers, handsome young men all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.577/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clothe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clothe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.