Definitions for dress up
dress up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 outverb

   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. dress up, window-dressverb

   make something appear superficially attractive

   "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"

3. caparison, bard, barde, dress upverb

   put a caparison on

   "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"

4. costume, dress upverb

   dress in a costume

   "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"

5. dress, dress upverb

   dress in a certain manner

   "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dress upverb

   To wear fancy dress.

2. dress upverb

   To wear a costume.

3. dress upverb

   To decorate; to prettify.

4. dress upverb

   To present in a favorable light.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dress up

   Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game us called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre itself in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.

Matched Categories

1. • Decorate
   • Dress
   • Embellish

How to pronounce dress up?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say dress up in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dress up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dress up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dress up in a Sentence

1. Norbert Hosszu:

   Fanni and I have always liked to dress up, and when we were at university we went to a lot of costume parties. And of course we both love movies and work with theatre.

2. Michelle Starkey:

   I don’t always feel pretty and I don’t always get to dress up, so that was really fun to go and get dressed up, i got meet some new friends who danced with me in my wheelchair on the dance floor.

3. Teresa Downing-Matibag:

   Girls can dress up as dragons, monsters, spies, secret agents, mummies, queens, and even Peter Pan and the Fairy Godmother, they can be Captain Hook, Santa Claus, the Lone Ranger and cowgirls, as well as lion tamers, scary clowns, astronauts, firefighters, sea captains, rock stars and Indy 500 racers.

4. Angela Menz:

   I think to the rest of the world, Melbourne Cup probably looks like one big party -- and that's exactly what it is, everyone makes an effort to dress up. But it's done in a very different way to say, Ascot in England, for example. The lifestyle in Australia is quite relaxed -- we don't have to wear gloves and jackets because it doesn't get that cold.

5. Somjit Teeraroj:

   I've been looking forward to every Wednesday, when I go to school, dress up as a school student and meet friends. We get to talk and laugh together.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dress up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dress_Up
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dress_Up