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clad

/klæd/verb, adjective1 syllable

Clad means: wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination.

Synonyms for clad46

verb, as in provide with clothes or put clothes on

dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel, get dressed

verb, as in cover as if with clothing

clothe, cloak, drape, robe

verb, as in furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

invest, clothe, adorn

adjective, as in wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

clothed, appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed, arrayed, panoplied, breeched, pantalooned, trousered, bundled-up
and 11 more, caparisoned, cassocked, coated, costumed, cowled, dighted, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, dolled up, spruced up

adjective, as in having an outer covering especially of thin metal

sheathed

also used for clad

beclad, raimented, aguised, nonnude

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What does clad mean?5

adjective

1

wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination“clothed and in his right mind”

2

having an outer covering especially of thin metal“steel-clad”

verb

1

provide with clothes or put clothes on“Parents must feed and dress their child”

2

cover as if with clothing“the mountain was clothed in tropical trees”

3

furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with clad?18

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Clad in a sentence

  • The calendar featured photos of bikini-clad vixens draped over sports cars.darinmex
  • The house was clad in brightly colored stucco.Lumi
  • The magazine featured scantily clad models on the cover.rul
  • She felt ashamed of her mother, a poorly clad woman, who picked up wood in the forest.Hybrid
  • A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.Hybrid
  • Her dainty feet were sandal-clad, while her head remained bare of covering other than her silken tresses.Hybrid
  • She saw beautiful green, vine-clad hills; palaces and country seats peeping through splendid woods.Hybrid
  • If metempsychosis be a true doctrine, her spirit must have once animated a steel-clad knight.remline

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Forms of clad

as a verb

past tense
cladded
present participle
cladding
third-person singular
clads
past participle
clad