dress up - Meaning in Tamil

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dress up - Meaning in Tamil

Definitions and Meaning of dress up in English

dress up verb

1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

   Synonyms

   attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up

   Examples

   • "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"
   • "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
2. dress in a certain manner

   Synonyms

   dress

   Examples

   • "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
   • "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"
3. dress in a costume

   Synonyms

   costume

   Example

   • "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
4. make something appear superficially attractive

   Synonyms

   window-dress

   Examples

   • "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
   • "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"
5. put a caparison on

   Synonyms

   bard, bard, barde, barde, caparison

   Example

   • "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"

Synonyms of dress up

• attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up
• dress
• costume
• window-dress
• bard, barde, caparison

Antonyms of dress up

dress down, underdress

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