dress up

English

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To wear fancy dress.

   Everyone dressed up for the graduation ball.

   I want a job where I don't have to dress up.

2. (intransitive) To wear a costume.

   We're having a party on Saturday, but you must dress up as a famous historical figure.

3. (transitive) To decorate; to prettify.
4. (transitive) To present in a favorable light.

Antonyms

• dress down

Derived terms

• dressed up

Translations

to wear fancy dress

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打扮 (cmn) (dǎbàn)

• Finnish: pukeutua (fi) (siististi, hienosti, tyylikkäästi), laittautua (fi)
• French: se costumer (fr)
• German: aufputzen (de), sich verkleiden (de)

• Hungarian: kiöltözik (hu)
• Japanese: 着飾る (ja) (きかざる, kikazaru)
• Polish: przebierać się / przebrać się
• Russian: нарядиться (ru) (narjadít'sja), приодеться (ru) (priodét'sja)
• Spanish: ponerse bonito (es), embellecer (es)
• Vietnamese: ăn mặc đàng hoàng, ăn mặc sang trọng