dress up
Verb
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Verb
dress up
- (intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.
- Antonyms: dress down
- Everyone dressed up for the graduation ball.
- I want a job where I don't have to dress up.
- (intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.
- We're having a party on Saturday, but you must dress up as a famous historical figure.
- (transitive) To decorate; to prettify.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 1,
- Mistress, your father prays you leave your books,
- And help to dress your sister’s chamber up:
- You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 1,
- (transitive) To present in a favorable light.
- Synonyms: spin
- You can dress up that proposal however you want, it's still going to go over like a lead balloon.
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