'dress up' definitions:
Definition of 'dress up'
(from WordNet)
verb
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" [syn: overdress, 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] [ant: dress down, underdress]
verb
Make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth" [syn: dress up, window-dress]
verb
Put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up]
verb
Dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins" [syn: costume, dress up]
verb
Dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie" [syn: dress, dress up]
Synonyms of 'dress up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'dress up'
- Dress,
- Dressed,
- Dressing,
- To dress out,
- To dress up,
- dress down,
- dress out,
- dressing down,
- Court dress,
- Diving dress,
- Dress circle,
- Dress coat,
- Dress goods,
- Dress parade,
- Dress rehearsal,
- Dressing case,
- Dressing forceps,
- Dressing gown,
- Dressing room,
- Dressing table,
- Fatigue dress,
- Full dress,
- Magazine dress,
- Pick dressing,
- To dress a ship,
- To dress on the center,
- To dress to the left,
- To dress to the right,
- Water dressing,
- anchovy dressing,
- battle dress,
- civilian dress,
- cocktail dress,
- cross dressing,
- dinner dress,
- dress blues,
- dress code,
- dress hanger,
- dress hat,
- dress rack,
- dress ship,
- dress shirt,
- dress shop,
- dress suit,
- dress uniform,
- dress whites,
- dressed ore,
- dressed to kill,
- dressed to killpredicate,
- dressed to the nines,
- dressed-up,
- dressing sack,
- dressing sacque,
- dressing station,
- evening dress,
- fancy dress,
- french dressing,
- get dressed,
- italian dressing,
- lorenzo dressing,
- medical dressing,
- mineral dressing,
- morning dress,
- ore dressing,
- oyster dressing,
- roquefort dressing,
- russian dressing,
- salad dressing,
- shirt dress,
- shirtwaist dress,
- surgical dressing,
- top dressing,
- wedding dress,
- well dressed,
- window dressing,
- Hammer-dressed,
- Top-dress,
- Top-dressed,
- Top-dressing,
- bleu cheese dressing,
- blue cheese dressing,
- cross-dress,
- dressed-up dressed to the ninespredicate dressed to killpredicate dolled up spruced up spiffed up,
- full-dress,
- ill-dressed,
- thousand island dressing,
- well-dressed,
- window-dress,
- fancy-dress ball,
- full-dress uniform,
- half-and-half dressing,
- togged dressed esp in smart clothes,
- appareled attired clad dressed garbed garmented habilimented robed