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dress up

 
Verb dress up has 5 senses
  1. dress up, 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 - 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"
    --1 is one way to dress, get dressed
    Antonyms: dress down, underdress
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    => Somebody ----s
  2. dress up, window-dress - make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
    --2 is one way to beautify, embellish, prettify
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. caparison, bard, dress up - put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"
    --3 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. costume, dress up - dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
    --4 is one way to dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s somebody
  5. dress, dress up - dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
    --5 is one way to dress, get dressed
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
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