clad
Verb
Verb Forms: clad, cladding, clads
- To coat or cover with a layer of material.
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
- cover as if with clothing
- simple past and past participle of clothe
- To clothe, to dress.
- To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
- To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
Adjective
- wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; - Bible
- "nurses clad in white"
- "white-clad nurses"
Adjective Satellite
- having an outer covering especially of thin metal
- "steel-clad"
- "armor-clad"
Adj
- Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
- Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
- Adorned, ornamented.
Examples
- The Scrabble board was CLAD with words, making it hard to find a new spot.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).
Synonyms
adorn, apparel, cloak, clothe, clothed, drape, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, invest, raiment, robe, tog, aguised, attired, beclad, clad, dressed, habilimented, nonnude, raimented, sarkit, togged, vested, yclothed
Scrabble Score: 7
clad: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclad: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clad: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary