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be dripping with sth
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› to be wearing a lot of something: She was absolutely dripping with gold/jewels.Wearing clothes
(Definition of be dripping with sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Babies' & children's clothing
- Ceremonial clothes & objects
- Clothing - general words
- Coats, jackets & cloaks
- Decorations for clothes
- Dresses, suits & gowns
- Fashion
- Fasteners for clothes
- Gloves & accessories
- Hats & scarves
- Jumpers, shirts & tee-shirts
- Nightwear
- Not wearing or removing clothes
- Parts of clothes
- Protective clothing
- Putting clothes on
- Shoes
- Skirts & kilts
- Smart & elegant
- Sportswear & swimwear
- Stockings, tights & socks
- Style & appearance of clothes
- Trousers
- Underwear
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Synonyms and related words:
- caped adjective
- clad adjective
- clothe verb
- clothed adjective
- decent adjective
- dressed (up) to the nines idiom
- dressed adjective
- dressed to kill idiom
- dresser noun (CLOTHES)
- grow into sth phrasal verb
- have (got) sth on phrasal verb
- mould verb
- robed adjective
- sartorial adjective
- stylish adjective
- suit verb (BE RIGHT)
- tog verb
- turn sb out phrasal verb (DRESS)
- wear verb (ON BODY)
- worn verb
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