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dress up

English

  1. 🔊 make something appear superficially attractive
    “The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data”
  2. 🔊 put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    “She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”
  3. 🔊 dress in a certain manner
    “She dresses in the latest Paris fashion”
  4. 🔊 dress in a costume
    “We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins”
  5. 🔊 put a caparison on
    “caparison the horses for the festive occasion”

Similar words

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