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reclothed

reclothed is the simple past and past participle of reclothe.

Meaning of reclothe

Verb

reclothe (third-person singular simple present reclothes, present participle reclothing, simple past and past participle reclothed)

  1. (transitive) To clothe again or anew.
  2. (transitive) To give a new form or appearance to.
    • Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11

Questions about reclothed

What is reclothed the simple past and past participle of?
Reclothed is the simple past and past participle of reclothe.

Words near reclothed in the dictionary

  1. recloses
  2. reclosing
  3. reclosure
  4. reclosures
  5. reclothe
  6. reclothed
  7. reclothes
  8. reclothing
  9. recloud
  10. reclouded
  11. reclouding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclothed (page history and authors); reclothe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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