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Added 9 October 2026

clad

/klæd/ verb

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simple past and past participle of clothe

adjective

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.

verb

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.

Origin

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”).

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