Clothe vs Sheathe - What's the difference?
clothe | sheathe | Synonyms |
To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21
* Goldsmith
(figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
* Watts
* J. Dyer
* Milton
To put something, such as a knife, into a sheath
To encase something with a protective covering
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Clothe is a synonym of sheathe.
As verbs the difference between clothe and sheathe
is that clothe is to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing while sheathe is to put something, such as a knife, into a sheath.clothe
English
Verb
- to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly
- Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
- Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.
- to clothe somebody with authority or power
- language in which they can clothe their thoughts
- His sides are clothed with waving wood.
- words clothed in reason's garb