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dress up

(CHANGE APPEARANCE)

Definition

to change your appearance by wearing special or unusual clothes: The kids were all dressed up for the costume party.
(Definition of dress up (CHANGE APPEARANCE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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