dress

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Woman wearing a dress.

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[edit] English

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[edit] Noun

Singular
dress

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural dresses

dress (countable and uncountable; plural dresses)

  1. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which covers the upper part of the body as well as below the waist.
    Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses.
  2. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.

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garment
apparel

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to dress

Third person singular
dresses

Simple past
dressed

Past participle
dressed

Present participle
dressing

to dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past and past participle dressed)

  1. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:
      And lyghtly syr Gawayne rose on his feet, and pulled out his swerd, and dressyd hym toward syr Marhaus on foote [...].
  2. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or somebody).
    He was dressed in the latest fashions.
  3. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
    I rose and dressed before daybreak.
  4. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
    Does sir dress to the right or the left?
  5. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  6. (transitive) To bandage (a wound).
    • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
  7. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.

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[edit] Synonyms

  • (clothe (something or somebody): clothe
  • (clothe oneself): get dressed
  • (prepare the surface of):
  • (bandage (a wound)): bandage, put a bandage on, put a dressing on

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to clothe (something or somebody)
to clothe oneself
to prepare the surface of (something)
to bandage (a wound)
to prepare (food)
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