dress up, v.
freq. cnt. 6
freq. cnt. 6
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
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attire deck out deck up dress up fancy up fig out fig up get up gussy up overdress prink rig out tog out tog up trick out trick up
sample sentences
"She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera""The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
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make something appear superficially attractive
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
dress up window-dress
sample sentences
"The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data""Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
verb frames
Somebody ----s somethingverb frames
Somebody ----s something
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hypernym
dress in a certain manner
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
dress dress up
sample sentences
"She dresses in the latest Paris fashion""he dressed up in a suit and tie"
verb frames
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verb group
dress up, deck out, trick out, get up, overdress, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, prink, attire, rig out, tog up, tog out
dress, get dressed
hypernym
hyponym
dress in a costume
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
costume dress up
sample sentences
"We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"verb frames
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derivationally related form
put a caparison on
<verb.creation>
bard barde caparison dress up
sample sentences
"caparison the horses for the festive occasion"verb frames
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