clad

clothe

  1. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  2. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

Opposite of
unclad, clothed, decent, dressed
Frequency

25k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/klæd/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).

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