Sheathe

Pronunciation

• enPR: shÄ“th, IPA: /ʃiːð/
• Rhymes: -iːð

Full definition of sheathe

Verb

1. To put something, such as a knife, into a sheath
2. To encase something with a protective covering
• 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur Chapter 17, “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

Antonyms

• unsheathe

Derived terms

• resheathe