dress up
v 1: 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" [syn: 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 out, overdress]
[ant: dress down]
2: make something appear superficially attractive; "The
researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data";
"Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth" [syn: window-dress]
3: put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive
occasion" [syn: caparison, bard]
4: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as
pumpkins" [syn: costume]
5: dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris
fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie" [syn: dress]
WordNet (r) 2.0
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "dress up":
adorn, apparel, array, attire, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie,
blazon, camouflage, clad, clothe, color, dandify, deck, deck out,
decorate, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, embellish,
emblazon, embroider, enclothe, enrich, falsify, fancy up, fig out,
fix up, fudge, furbish, garb, garble, garment, garnish, get up,
gild, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, mask, miscite, miscolor,
misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overdress,
overstate, paint, pervert, prank, prank up, preen, prettify,
pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, raiment,
redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slant, slick,
slick up, smarten, smarten up, smug, spiff, spruce up, strain,
titivate, toggle, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate,
varnish, warp, whitewash
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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