dress up
— phrasal verb with dress /dres/ verbDefinition
› to put on formal clothes for a special occasion: You don't need to dress up to go to the pub - jeans and a T-shirt will do.Putting clothes onDecorating or making something attractive › to put on special clothes in order to change your appearance: Small children usually love dressing up in their mothers' clothes. He dressed up as a cowboy for the party.Putting clothes onHiding and disguising
(Definition of dress up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be holed up idiom
- camouflage noun
- cloak verb
- conceal verb
- concealment noun
- cover/hide a multitude of sins idiom
- fig leaf noun (FALSE)
- hiding noun (PLACE)
- hit the deck idiom
- hole up (somewhere) phrasal verb
- illusion noun
- incognito adverb
- prowl noun
- secrete verb (HIDE)
- shroud noun (HIDE)
- shroud verb
- shut sth out phrasal verb
- sidle verb
- skulk verb
- smokescreen noun
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Hiding and disguising
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