Dress Down

Definition: Dress Down

Dress Down

Verb

1. Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic.

2. Put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression.

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Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Dress Down

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: Dress Down

Perhaps I should wear a dress down to the groud. (Keeping Up Appearances; writing credit: Roy Clarke)

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Books

• Casual Power:: How to Power Up Your Nonverbal Communication & Dress Down for Success (reference)

  (more book examples)

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She stood up and pulled the dress down around her ankles.

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Albanian

shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), qortoj ashpër (objurgate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тимаря (dress, rub down), нахоквам здравата, напердашвам (clobber, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, skin, thrash, whale). (various references)

Czech

zjet koho. (various references)

French

s'habiller simplement, passer un savon � qn (give a dressing-down). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל� זוף (admonish, chide, flay, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, slate, take to task, upbraid). (various references)

Hungarian

megver (belabor, bludgeon, clobber, defeat, discomfit, lick, to belabor, to belabour, to chastise, to cudgel, to defeat, to discomfit, to lay it on sy, to put over, to total, to trounce, to whop), lecsutakol (to curry, to sweat). (various references)

Indonesian

memarahi (anger, chide, tonk). (various references)

Manx

troiddey (altercate, altercation, berate, bicker, chide, chiding, dressing down, jaw, jaw scolding, mud-slinging, nag, nagging, objurgate, objurgation, quarrel, quarrelling, rate, row; squabbling, scold, scolding, set to, squabble, telling off, wigging), fanney (bite, bite of wind, excoriation, flay, fleece, fly-fishing, scalp, skin, skinning, slash, slashing, slating, soak, tirade). (various references)

Pig Latin

essdray ownday

Romanian

lua la zor. (various references)

Russian 

задать трепку (give a bashing), задать головомойку. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

očitati bukvicu, izgrditi (berate, chastise, give it to him, lambaste, rip, scathe, scold, snub, tell off, vituperate). (various references)

Spanish

reprender (blame, censure, chide, objurgate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task). (various references)

Swedish

skälla ut (abuse, berate, call down, call names, dust down, insult, lambaste, lash out against, offend, rate, scold, slang, take apart), klå upp (bash, beat up, belabor, belabour, cane, chaw up, clout, Lam, lambaste, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, wallop, whop). (various references)

Turkish

tımar etmek (curry, groom, rub down), paylamak (baste, bring up, flay, give smb. beans, inveigh, jaw out, lace into, objurgate, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, scold, tick off), kaşağılamak (comb, curry, rub down), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate). (various references)

Ukrainian

дати прочухана (salt down, take to task). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: downers, dowsers, drownds, drowned, drowsed, drowses, nodders, oddness, soddens, sonders, wonders, worsens.

-3 letters: dosers, dossed, dosser, dowers, downed, downer, dowsed, dowser, dowses, droned, drones, drownd, drowns, drowse, endows, nodder, owners, redons, resods, resown, resows, rowens, senors, sensor, serows, snored, snores, snowed, sodden, sonder, sondes, sorned, sowens, sowers, swords, wonder, worded, worsen, worses.

+2 letters: crowdedness, disendowers.

+3 letters: downwardness.

+4 letters: crowdednesses.

+5 letters: downwardnesses.

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