{
    "term": "clothe",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "clothe",
            "heSheIt": "clothes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "clothed",
        "pastParticiple": "clothed",
        "ingForm": "clothing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to dress somebody/yourself",
            "sensetop": "clothe somebody/yourself/something (in something)",
            "labels": "(formal)(figurative)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They clothe their children in the latest fashions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Climbing plants clothed the courtyard walls."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to provide clothes for somebody to wear",
            "sensetop": "clothe somebody",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the costs of feeding and clothing a family"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊð/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothe__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊðz/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊðd/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkləʊðɪŋ/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothing__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊð/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothe__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊðz/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothes__us_2_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kləʊðd/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkləʊðɪŋ/",
                "audio": "cl/clothe/clothing__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English (only recorded in the past participle geclāded), from clāth, related to Dutch kleed and German Kleid, of unknown ultimate origin."
}