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dress up
Found in thesaurus: dress, get dressed, beautify, fancify, prettify, embellish, decorate, grace, adorn, ornament, clothe, habilitate, enclothe, garment, tog, raiment, apparel, garb, fit out
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dress up
v.
put on fancy clothes, dress nicely
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Dress-up
Dress-up is a game played mainly by children. It involves dressing up, usually to impersonate someone or something, like an animal or character in a fairy tale. The type of clothes they dress up in often resembles who they are trying to be, either adults' clothing or special play clothes designed specifically for dress-up like feather boas and jewelry.
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dress up
Verb
1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
(synonym) fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
(antonym) dress down, underdress
(hypernym) dress, get dressed
(hyponym) preen, primp, plume, dress
(see-also) dress, get dressed
(verb-group) dress
2. make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
(synonym) window-dress
(hypernym) beautify, embellish, prettify
3. put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"
(synonym) caparison, bard
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
4. dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
(synonym) costume
(hypernym) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
(verb-group) fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
5. dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
(synonym) dress
(hypernym) dress, get dressed
(hyponym) vest
(verb-group) fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
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dress up
put on one`s best clothes I decided to dress up to go to dinner on Saturday night.
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dress up
Synonyms and related words:
adorn, apparel, array, attire, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, clad, clothe, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enclothe, enrich, falsify, fancy up, fig out, fix up, fudge, furbish, garb, garble, garment, garnish, get up, gild, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overdress, overstate, paint, pervert, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, raiment, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slant, slick, slick up, smarten, smarten up, smug, spiff, spruce up, strain, titivate, toggle, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash,
adorn, apparel, array, attire, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, clad, clothe, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enclothe, enrich, falsify, fancy up, fig out, fix up, fudge, furbish, garb, garble, garment, garnish, get up, gild, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overdress, overstate, paint, pervert, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, raiment, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slant, slick, slick up, smarten, smarten up, smug, spiff, spruce up, strain, titivate, toggle, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash,
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