dress up

VERB
  1. put a caparison on
    caparison the horses for the festive occasion
  2. make something appear superficially attractive
    The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
    Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
  3. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
  4. dress in a certain manner
    he dressed up in a suit and tie
    She dresses in the latest Paris fashion
  5. dress in a costume
    We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins
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How To Use dress up In A Sentence

  • Hold still a minute while I pin your dress up.
  • Legislation is needed because existing criminal law does not adequately address upskirting. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the notion of Santa Claus arrived in Britain, the same ladies would dress up as the bearded gent to visit poor homes with a toy for each child.
  • The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
  • Later, he used morality on the international stage to dress up a government bogged down in managerialism and public-sector reform.
  • The smothering saleslady held the dress up to me.
  • I still want him to fall for me afterward - should I just wear something regular, something that shows off my figure, dress up, or go grunge?
  • Women dress up for men, but blokes hardly ever merchandise themselves for us gals.
  • Halloween is a spooky and scary night . People dress up in the Hallween.
  • The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
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