The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep.clotheclothe /kləʊð $ kloʊð/ ●●○ verb [transitive] 
The King was clothed in a purple gown.fully/partially/scantily etc clothed The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep.2to provide clothes for yourself or other people: They could barely keep the family fed and clothed.GRAMMAR Clothe is usually passive.
WORD ORIGINclothe
Origin:
Old English clathian, from clath; ➔ CLOTHVERB TABLE
clothe
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | clothe |
| he, she, it | clothes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | clothed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have clothed |
| he, she, it | has clothed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had clothed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will clothe |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have clothed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am clothing |
| he, she, it | is clothing | |
| you, we, they | are clothing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was clothing |
| you, we, they | were clothing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been clothing |
| he, she, it | has been clothing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been clothing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be clothing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been clothing |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold.
- In the Hindu tradition, a favorite devotional practice is the clothing of the images of the gods.
- Let me clothe you in my righteousness as you bow before me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Jean felt more comfortable in casual clothes. She circled the bedroom, picking up dirty clothes. ladies’ underwear the weekly meat ration a coal ration of 4 kg a month News of bread rationing created panic buying.
The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep. (=for dirty clothes)· Will you please put your socks in the laundry basket?
Jean felt more comfortable in casual clothes.· He had a shower and changed into clean clothes.
· You’ll need comfortable shoes for walking around the city.
British English· The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.
She circled the bedroom, picking up dirty clothes.· I had no dry clothes to change into.
· She’d bought a few items of clothing for her trip.
ladies’ underwear the weekly meat ration a coal ration of 4 kg a month News of bread rationing created panic buying. (=an ability to choose clothes well)· Her dress sense was faultless.
American English (=one that sells one type of goods) She worked in a grocery store before going to college.
She worked in a grocery store before going to college. (=ordinary clothes, not a special uniform or costume)· She changed into her street clothes and left the theatre.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Ralph Lauren's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen, followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee.· I took off my boots and lay down on the bed fully clothed.· Children, many suffering from malnutrition, keep warm by doing exercises fully clothed.· Condrey said he was still holding Higgins' hand when they walked into the water, fully clothed.· After all I was fully clothed.· But we all make concessions to age and physical erosion, so Young remained fully clothed on his naked bootleg.· But even if she'd been fully clothed the chance of escape was gone before it arrived.· It was like watching a postgame inter-view with an athlete, except that Roz was fully clothed.
· Within minutes, Tamika, squeaky clean for the first time in days, is proudly pulling the clothing on.
NOUN· As Mami and Papi finished dressing, the girls watched, fussing at their tights, an uncomfortable new article of clothing.· The SHTRAYml, like other articles of clothing, is an instance where the restriction was turned into an ornament.· Casually remove articles of clothing throughout the course of the meaL Insult your companions.· I tell her to look for an article of clothing he might have left behind and slash that instead.
· The way in which we clothe our bodies and accentuate our physical attributes can also build power.
· Matthew was, carrying a black grip with him and said it contained a change of clothing.· She always has to carry an extra change of clothing with her in case she has an accident.
· The shift was an unbroken sixteen hours and the children were clothed in rags.· How would the children be fed and clothed, on Army pay?
· I felt a mixture of emotions as I proceeded to unstrap my assortment of protective clothing and equipment.· While on the floor, they must follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment.· Its food, clothing and equipment drives were worth nearly as much.
· They include objects of precious metal. like the jewelry and famous gold mask, and food and clothing.· Provisions: Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, education, medical care.· The prisoners who escaped invariably turned up at their homes, where they were given accommodation, food and clothing.· Rent, food, furniture, clothes...· An estimated 20m households depend on income from coffee to pay for food, clothing and education.· We waited for food, clothing, medication.· We delivered hot food, clothing, mail, and ammunition to them every day.· There is urgent need there for food and clothing.
· Table 8.3 lists the major companies supplying sports clothing and footwear.· If the consumer decides to participate then he or she will require a racket, shuttlecocks, clothing and footwear.· They are: 1 membership and subscription fees 2 cost of equipment, clothing, and footwear.· Although we have used the example of equipment here, in many ways the same applies to both sports clothing and footwear.
· These famously include: Name one item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers?
· The photos are of a tall, thin man in baggy clothing.
· This unfortunately is the only piece of male outer clothing from the area.· Every time we go out there and rake through a load, we turn over a piece of clothing and hope.· Steam was rising everywhere, from each piece of clothing, from the spilled water.· Nowadays I am accustomed to making deductions from a single piece of clothing or personal item associated with a crime.· It must have been for the company, the contact, the occasional piece of clothing she made for Lucky.
· Red Cross volunteers are providing food, clothing and temporary shelter to the residents.
· The core of the sports industry is the sports goods sector: sports equipment, sports clothing, and sports shoes.· Hamilton, who had never golfed, spent hundreds of dollars on clothing, shoes and clubs.
· Is this the best way to show women how this clothing might stand up to real-world stresses and tribulations?· Some governments now frown on the open sale of alcohol, and zealots harass young women wearing Western clothing.
VERB· The first was to enable the prison system to feed and clothe the prisoners through its own efforts.· Merely earning enough money to keep a family housed, fed, and clothed is a major challenge for most people.· You have no family to feed and clothe, you should have less of a problem.· Perhaps this is because people are now better fed, housed and clothed.· When she was born Eminem lived in a trailer park with little money from his kitchen job to feed or clothe her.· Marshall Sahlins demonstrated that Paleolithic people needed to work only 14 hours a week to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.· The policy of Ellis, to feed and clothe the prison population from its own resources, has already been mentioned.
· Some governments now frown on the open sale of alcohol, and zealots harass young women wearing Western clothing.· Can teachers wear distinctively religious clothing in public schools?· When he posed for me he wore street clothes.· A woman and a girl wore Western clothing.· Others wear sandals and tattered clothing.· Workers wear protective clothing when they handle the monkeys.· While on the floor, they must follow established health and safety practices and wear the required protective clothing and equipment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Everyone was in black because their best clothes were for funerals, and everyone danced.
- I washed them, then dressed them in their best clothes, but never new ones.
- She had her best shoes on, and a new hat.
- She had the best dress sense of any girl in Benedict's and a passion for altering the colour of her hair.
- The best car, the wittiest put-down, and the best dress.
- The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came.
- The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
- They would never let you in alone, even though you are wearing your best clothes.
- As any woman could tell you a change of clothes or hairstyle can instantly change the way people think about you.
- But I decided I wanted a change of clothes in the morning and my own bed that night.
- Clarisa passed him over to me at the window seat so she could pull out a change of clothes.
- Contrite, she backed off, collecting a change of clothes from her bag.
- Dominic could dress quickly when a change of clothes was called for.
- This does not necessarily mean paying out a lot of money for several totally new changes of clothes.
- With a change of clothes and some food, he set off in search of fools.
- In uniform and in plain clothes, roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information.
- Large men in plain clothes and short haircuts had wanted to know his business.
- Mr Montesinos was escorted by agents in plain clothes into a helicopter shortly after arriving at Lima airport.
- They were in plain clothes and, in his opinion, drunk, arrogant and overpowering.
- Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
- Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.
- I'd got no money, no night things, no spare clothes, no bank card.
- It may include parts of larger support weapons such as mortars, radio equipment and spare batteries.
- Make sure you have a supply of spare batteries too.
- Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it.
- Some people take a fully charged spare battery along with them just in case!
- Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door.
- Crackdown shows one third of used cars are not safe.
- However, with used cars, who knows?
- Leased a gravel lot for $ 15 a month and sold used cars.
- Now the tax on importing used cars has been slashed.
- The family also sticks to used cars.
- If ever there was a wolf in sheep's clothing this Bill is it.
- As he approached them, Mungo could see that they wore blue uniform trousers under their working clothes.
- But she had to turn up at Maggie's school in her working clothes.
- In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering.
- Jonadab was not to be hurried and methodically finished changing into his working clothes before putting in an appearance.
- Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
- They went from the workplace into the canteen, they sat and opened their lunchboxes in their working clothes.
- They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church ... they daren't be seen in their working clothes.
WORD FAMILYnounclothesclothingadjectiveclothed ≠ unclothedverbclothe
1 formal to put clothes on your body SYN dressbe clothed in something The King was clothed in a purple gown.fully/partially/scantily etc clothed The children lay on the bed, fully clothed and fast asleep.2to provide clothes for yourself or other people: They could barely keep the family fed and clothed.GRAMMAR Clothe is usually passive.