clothe

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It takes a fair amount of love and money to feed, clothe, and house a passel of geeks for a weekend.

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  1. transitive verb To put clothes on; dress.
  2. transitive verb To provide clothes for.
  3. transitive verb To cover as if with clothing.

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  • The Church would have to embrace not just those who pray but also those who work to feed, clothe, and shelter their Anglo-Saxon co-ethnics as well as those who fight to defend the territorial and ethnocultural integrity of the Anglo-Saxon race against its enemies. '' —  Vanishing American
  • These donations directly fund programs that feed, clothe, and house the poor, deliver after-school programs to disadvantaged children, build new facilities for colleges and other schools, and generally enrich most citizen's lives. —  Red Mass Group - Front Page
  • This means that although we want to protect the environment most of us will be happy with whatever we can get and not get to upset at corporations taking out the environment to 'feed, clothe, and house us.' —  Top World News
  • It takes a fair amount of love and money to feed, clothe, and house a passel of geeks for a weekend. —  BarCamp
  • I have now one less to feed and clothe, and no schooling expenses; and I have been calculating things up, and find that I can allow you seventy-five pounds a year without making any difference in the manner of my living. —  One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

dress ·  coat ·  food ·  hat ·  cloth ·  uniform ·  furniture ·  bag ·  blanket ·  stuff ·  paper ·  costume

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clothe:   clothing ·  clothes ·  clothed ·  clad
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English clothen, from Old English clāthian, from clāth, cloth.

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  1. Formerly also cloath, cloathe, dial. also clad and clod; from Middle English clothen, cloden, clathen (also clethen, later English dial. and Scots clead, cleed, q. v.) (preterit clothede, clothed, cladde, cledde, clade, clad, past participle clothed, clad, cled), from Anglo-Saxon clāthian (= D. Low German kleeden = Middle High German G. kleiden = Icelandic klœtha = Swedish kläda = Danish klœde), clothe, from clāth, a cloth, a garment: see cloth, n., and cf. cloth, v.
 

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