Dress up - definition, pronunciation, transcription
verb
- make something appear superficially attractive
Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
- dress in a costume (syn: costume)
- dress in a certain manner (syn: dress)
Extra examples
Mary (was) dressed up for the party.
We were dressed up as pirates.
You can dress these old chairs up in new covers.
The children enjoy dressing up in Mother's old clothes.
The prisoners escaped by dressing up as guards.
Dress up the men so that the general can see them.
...we always like to dress up when going to parties...
...the war was a fiasco that the administration tried to dress up as a triumph...
The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
Please hook my dress up at the back, I can't reach.
I keep a box of old clothes for the children to dress up in.
It's a small informal party - you don't have to dress up.
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