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Definition of 'dress up'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) 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
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. (verb) 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"

3. (verb) caparison, bard, barde, dress up
put a caparison on
"caparison the horses for the festive occasion"

4. (verb) costume, dress up
dress in a costume
"We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"

5. (verb) dress, dress up
dress in a certain manner
"She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"

Definition of 'dress up'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) dress up
to put on more formal clothes than usual
Do we need to get dressed up for the party?

2. dress up
to wear clothes that make you look like sb or sth else
kids dressed up as jungle animals

Translation of 'dress up'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to put on special clothes, eg fancy dress He dressed up as a clown for the party.
Afrikaans: uitdos	Arabic: يَرْتَدي ملابِس تَنَكُّرِ	Bulgarian: обличам се специално
Brazilian: fantasiar-se	Czech: přestrojit se, převléci s	German: sich kostümieren
Danish: klæde sig ud	Greek: μεταμφιέζομαι	Spanish: disfrazarse
Estonian: rõivastuma	Farsi: لباس جالب پوشیدن	Finnish: pukeutua naamiaisasuun
French: s'endimancher	Hebrew: לְהִתלַבֵּש יָפֶה	Hindi: आकर्षक या विशेष कपड़ पहनन
Croatian: dotjerati se, svečano se	Hungarian: felöltözik (vminek)	Indonesian: berpakaian, berdandan
Icelandic: klæða sig upp, klæðast gr	Italian: vestirsi a festa	Japanese: 盛装する
Korean: 특별한 의상을 입다	Lithuanian: apsirengti, išsipuošti	Latvian: pārģērbties par; uzpostie
Malay: berpakaian	Dutch: (zich) uitdossen	Norwegian: pynte seg; kle seg ut
Polish: przebierać się, stroić si	Persian: لباس جالب پوشیدن	Pashto: په زړه پورى كالى اغوستل
Portuguese: fantasiar-se	Romanian: a se găti	Russian: наряжаться
Slovak: preobliecť sa za, vyoblie	Slovenian: praznično se obleči	Serbian: doterati se
Swedish: klä ut sig	Thai: แต่งตัวอย่างเป็นทางการ	Turkish: giyinip kuşanmak, süslenm
Taiwanese: 盛裝打扮	Ukrainian: прибратися; нарядитися	Urdu: کوئی مخصوص لباس پہننا
Vietnamese: cải trang	Chinese: 穿上盛装
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