overdress 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' gussy up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' dress up 'dress in a certain manner' prink 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' get up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' attire 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' dress 'dress in a certain manner' dress 'put on clothes' dress 'dress or groom with elaborate care' tog up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' deck out 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' tog out 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' primp 'dress or groom with elaborate care' fig up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' fig out 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' deck up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' change 'change clothes; put on different clothes' dress up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' rig out 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' plume 'dress or groom with elaborate care' trick out 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' get dressed 'put on clothes' trick up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' fancy up 'put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive' preen 'dress or groom with elaborate care'
dress up 'COD: dress in smart or formal clothes, or in a special costume.' throw on 'FN: put on (clothing) quickly.' pull on 'FN: put on (an item of clothing)' dress 'COD: put on one's clothes.' don 'COD: put on (an item of clothing).' put on 'FN: manipulate (a clothing or accoutrement) such that one ends up wearing it.' slip on 'FN: put on (clothing) gracefully or sensuously.' get on 'FN: begin wearing'
Change before you go to the opera She likes to dress when going to the opera She dresses in the latest Paris fashion She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera Can the child dress by herself? The young girls were all fancied up for the party he dressed up in a suit and tie we had to dress quickly dress the patient
Examples from VerbNet
Marlene dressed the baby. Marlene dressed. Marlene dressed herself. She was clad in black.
Examples from SemCor
The girls, after dressing, were indignant. She dressed and the accustomed routine restored to her a sense of normal everyday life. The girls are prone to dress far more flamboyantly than their counterparts out of town, and eye_shadow, mascara, and elaborate bouffant hairdos- despite the admonitions of cautious guidance personnel- are not unknown even in early classes. Changing his clothes upstairs? You could set_up tables in the front_room and serve salads and your baked beans and brown_bread and Grandma could dress like a gypsy and tell fortunes''. Professionally a lawyer, that_is_to_say with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed_up, disguised-, paradoxically, revealed- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child. `` For_one_thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day''. Finally, the theatrical( and perversely erotic) notions of dressing_up,, disguise, and especially change of costume( or singularity of costume, as with Cipolla), are characteristically associated with the catastrophes of Mann 's stories. At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom. The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I 'd changed''. The Ivy_League enjoys no easy dominion here, and the boys are as likely to dress in rather foppish Continental fashion, or even in nondescript working_class manner, as they are in the restrained, button-down Ivy way. The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street. Times_Square, when I ascended to_it with my subway travellers( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks celebrants, with bundled_up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey. The men of Innesfree are got_up authentically in cloth_caps and sweaters, and their dancing and singing is fine. Changing his clothes, he put_on his dark-blue flannel suit, and laid away the gray jacket with the feeling that he might be putting it aside for_good. ( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.) High_school students have more sense of the way to dress than college_students. Feeling suddenly neat and subdued, she dressed quite soberly and went downstairs. He dressed, and sped outdoors. He showered, shaved, dressed and went_down to the dining_room for breakfast. Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed_up in streaks of paint. The horrifying humor, the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone_wrong, the monstrous image of the fat man dressed_up as a whore dressing_up as a baby; the epiphany of that flesh; the bringing_together around it of the secret liaison between indolent, mindless sensuality and sharp, shrewd talent, cleverness with an occasional touch of genius( which, however, does not know`` how to attack the problem of suffering''); the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself; beyond itself, also, it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann 's work. So junior 's bedroom was usually tricked_out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the`` hard knocks'', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only. She had changed into a cocktail_dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck. The Jewish working_girl almost invariably works in an office- in contradistinction to gentile factory_workers- and, buttressed by a respectable income, she is likely to dress better and live more expansively than the college_student. The_most that was accomplished was adding Mrs._Beige 's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after_a_fashion. If one of Mr._Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr._Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show. And girls could have dressed like that- it is transparent enough''. `` Ex-cuse me'', he said in Berlitz_English, and got_up and left them, to bathe and dress.