clothe has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ verb ] (clothing) provide with clothes or put clothes on

Examples

"Parents must feed and dress their child"

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

It won't develop until he has words with which to clothe it .

2
[ verb ] furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

Synonyms

adorn invest

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)

The District_Courts , in the framing of equitable decrees , are clothed ' with large discretion to model their judgments to fit the exigencies of the particular case ' .

Related terms

equip investiture

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