Definitions for dress up

Definitions for (verb) dress up

Main entry: trick out, trick up, tog out, tog up, prink, rig out, dress up, deck out, deck up, attire, overdress, get up, gussy up, fig out, fig up, fancy up

Definition: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

Usage: She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera; The young girls were all fancied up for the party


Main entry: dress, dress up

Definition: dress in a certain manner

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


Main entry: costume, dress up

Definition: dress in a costume

Usage: We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins


Main entry: window-dress, dress up

Definition: make something appear superficially attractive

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


Main entry: bard, barde, caparison, dress up

Definition: put a caparison on

Usage: caparison the horses for the festive occasion


Visual thesaurus for dress up