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 →

2) To clothe is to cover something as if with clothes, as in «clothe in the weeds of woe». tree →

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 →
• The king clothed his soldiers in red. tree →
• The hills were clothed in mist. tree →
• Clothe yourself warmly before you go out. tree →

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.
• And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
• But the spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon; and he blew a horn; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.
• I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
• clothed with blue, governors and rulers, handsome young men all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «clothe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.