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Adjective dressed-up has 1 sense
- dressed, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged up - dressed in fancy or formal clothing
Antonym: unclothed (indirect, via clothed)
Verb dress-up has 5 senses
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Somebody ----s PP
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