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dress

 
 
/dres/ verb

Definition

PUT ON CLOTHES [I, T] to put clothes on yourself or someone else: I usually get dressed before having breakfast. My husband usually dresses the children for school. → Opposite undress
STYLE [I] to wear a particular type, style, or colour of clothes: Ali always dresses smartly for work. [often passive] She was dressed in black.
dress a burn/cut/wound, etc to clean an injury and put a covering over it to protect it
(Definition of dress verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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