overdress \o`ver*dress"\, v. t.
To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much; to dress too
formally for an informal occasion. --Pope.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overdress
v 1: dress excessively; "You should not overclothe the child--she
will be too hot" [syn: overclothe]
2: 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: dress up, 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] [ant:
dress down]
WordNet (r) 2.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "overdress":
bedizen, deck out, dizen, doll up, dress up, fancy up, fig out,
get up, gussy up, prank, pretty up, primp, prink, rag out,
slick up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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