Dress Up

Definition: Dress Up

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".

2. Make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth".

3. Put a caparison on; of horses.

4. Dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins".

5. Dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion": "he dressed up in a suit and tie".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Dress Up

Falsehood

Garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate; blague.

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Representation

Dress up; illustrate, symbolize.

Crosswords: Dress Up

We won't have to dress up like women and children (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

You like to dress up like a woman (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

Well, if we're gonna dress up like Autobots, then I'm gonna look like Optimus Prime (Transformers: Robots in Disguise; writing credit: Richard Epcar; Marc Handler)

Don't get out much, and don't dress up fly (Wasting Time; performing artist: Kid Rock)

She'll dress up all in lace and go in style (Lyin' Eyes; performing artist: The Eagles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Angelina Ballerina's Dress Up Card Game (reference)

• Complete Book of Window Treatments & Curtains: Traditional & Innovative Ways to Dress Up Your Windows (reference)

• Dress Up (Math Sticker Stories) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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I told my wife to dress up, as you saw, so that your young lady would follow her without hesitation

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Business

They usually dress up in new clothes at these occasions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "dress up": dress up to the nines ♦ To dress up. Additional references.

Albanian

vishem tebdil, vishem e ngjishem, vesh rrobat më të mira, ujdisem (come to an understanding, smarten), maskohem. (various references)

Arabic 

‏إرتدى يتنكر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкрасявам (beautify, embellish, embroider, furbish, gild, ornament, prettify, pretty), обличам (accouter, accoutre, attire, clothe, coat, deck, dress, endue, garb, garment, get on, gird, habit, invest, pull on, pull over, put on, rig, rig out, rig up, robe, tire, vest, vesture), маскирам (camouflage, mask), представям в по-добра светлина, докарвам (account, bring, bring over, bring up, dress, drive, induce, land, lay, produce, reduce, return, send, set, smarten, work). (various references)

Chinese 

�"扮 . (various references)

Czech

vystrojit se (rig out, spruce up), přestrojit se (mask), obléci se (get on, pit one's clothes on). (various references)

Finnish

pukeutua koreisiin (make oneself smart), koristautua (adorn oneself), koreilla (make a show of, overdress, show off). (various references)

French

travestir, se déguiser, se costumer. (various references)

German

verkleiden (box in, case, cover, disguise, encase, face, line, mask, panel, put into fancy dress, to disguise, wainscot), sich verkleiden (disguise oneself, Masquerade), schönen (belles, brighten, clarify), maskieren (disguise, mask, masking, to mask), kostümiert (dresses up), herausputzen (array, deck out, smarten, spruce up), aufputzen (adorn, brush up, clean up, deck out, decorate, do up, ornament, polish up). (various references)

Greek 

μεταμφιέζομαι (disguise, mask). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תלבש ח�'י�'ית (rig out), ל�"תחפש (disguise oneself, impersonate, wear a mask). (various references)

Hungarian

kiöltözik (to clobber out, to clobber up, to deck oneself out, to prink oneself, tog oneself up), felcicomáz (bedizen, fig, primp, to adorn, to bedeck, to primp, to rig, to rig out, trick up). (various references)

Indonesian

berdandan (decorated, get dressed), bercantik-cantik (be dressed up), beradun. (various references)

Italian

travestire (disguise, disguise oneself), mascherare (conceal, cover, disguise, dress as, hide, mask, pass oneself off, put on a mask). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

磨き立てる (to polish), ドル箱 (drain, drain cock, drape, dress, dress shirt, dress suit, dressmaker, dressmaking, milch cow, patron). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドレスアップ , みがきたてる (to polish). (various references)

Manx

coamrey (apparel, clothe, clothes, clothing, costume, cover up, drape, dress, dressing, fit, garment, habit, repair). (various references)

Pig Latin

essdray upay.(various references)

Portuguese

vestir-se elegantemente (dink), fantasiar-se. (various references)

Romanian

dichisi (adorn, arrange, smarten up, Spruce, trim), spilcui (Spruce), se îmbrãca elegant, costuma (costume). (various references)

Romany

doozdìnav (to dress up). (various references)

Russian 

наряжать (attire, bedizen, doll up, dress, prink), нарядиться, нарядить, надевать (get on, put on), принарядиться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uparaditi, ravnati, nagizdati, lepo (beautifully, finely, nicely). (various references)

Spanish

disfrazarse (disguise oneself, get up), revestir (carry, cloth, coat, cover, dress, encase, lag, revet), entarascar (doll up), endomingarse, emperejilar (prink, titivate), ataviarse (doll oneself up, rig out, spruce oneself, titivate, tog). (various references)

Swedish

sträcka upp sig, kostymera (costume), klä ut sig, klä ut (bedizen, disguise), klä upp sig (doll up, tog up), klä upp (doll up), klä sig fin, klä fin. (various references)

Turkish

süslenmek (make one's toilet, prank oneself out, prank oneself up, prink, smarten up, titivate), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), giydirip süslemek, şık giyinmek (spruce oneself up, spruce up). (various references)

Ukrainian

вишукано одягатися. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: drupes, druses, dupers, duress, perdus, prudes, pseuds, pursed, purses, sprues, sudser, supers.

-2 letters: dress, drupe, druse, duper, dupes, dures, perdu, press, prude, pseud, purse, puses, ruses, sprue, spuds, spued, spues, spurs, suers, super, supes, surds, users.

-3 letters: dues, dupe, dups, dure, peds, puds, pure, purs, puss, reds, reps, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sers.

+1 letter: predusks, spudders, suspired.

+2 letters: disposure, disputers, dumpsters, percussed, persuades, pressured, superadds, supersede, superstud, surpassed, surprised, suspender, underpass, unpressed.

+3 letters: disposures, disreputes, disrupters, outpressed, outspreads, persuaders, presidiums, splendours, splendrous, subperiods, supercedes, superfunds, superminds, superposed, superroads, superseded, superseder, supersedes, supersized, superstuds, supervised, suppressed, suspenders, underspins, upwardness.

+4 letters: displeasure, mudskippers, pasteurised, pedicurists, praesidiums, prefocussed, pressurised, pressurized, presupposed, prudishness, rudderposts, splendorous, sulphurised, superboards, superfluids, supermodels, superorders, superoxides, supersedeas, superseders, superseding, supersedure, suspendered, underpasses, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressured, unprocessed, unprofessed, unrepressed, unsurpassed, unsurprised, uredospores.