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clad
/klæd/
adj 3verb 3
Collocations
6(adj.)
VERBS
be
ADV
fully
The swimmers were fully clad in protective wetsuits before entering the cold water.
lightly, partially, scantily
The beach volleyball players were lightly clad in their uniforms despite the cold wind.
appropriately, suitably
The lifeguard was appropriately clad in a red swimsuit and whistle.
decently
PREP
in
The soldiers were clad in heavy winter coats as they marched through the snow.
Definitions
adj
1
Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!
Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
2
Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]
Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]
3
Adorned, ornamented.
verb
1
To clothe, to dress.
At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly.
Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my Pages ſhall be clad, […]
2
To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
[M]any bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines; […]
He ſcarce had ſaid, when the bare Earth, till then / Deſert and bare, unſightly, unadorn'd, / Brought forth the tender Graſs whoſe verdure clad / Her Univerſal Face with pleaſant green, […]
3
To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain.
O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — wearing or provided with clothing
Antonyms
- unclothed
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!
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Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
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Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.
Wiktionary04
At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do
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Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my
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But ſee the Sunne in ruſſet mantle clad, / Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top, […]
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