Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - dress up
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Dress up
dress up
verb Date: 1635 transitive verb 1. to make more attractive, glamorous, or fancy ~ a plain dessert with a rich chocolate sauce 2. a. to attire in best or formal clothes b. to attire in clothes suited to a particular role 3. to present in the most attractive or impressive light a fiasco dressed up as a triumph intransitive verb to get dressed up
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2.
1. наряжать dressed up fit to kill —- при полном параде, разодетый в пух и прах, расфранченный 2. наряжаться; принарядиться 3. надевать маскарадный костюм, рядиться to dress up as soldier —- (пере)одеться солдатом to dress up for a part —- (пере)одеться к выходу на сцену ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
1. If you dress up or dress yourself up, you put on different clothes, in order to make yourself look smarter than usual or to disguise yourself. You do not need to dress up for dinner... Little girls dress up as angels for fiestas. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P in/as n 2. If you dress someone up, you give them special clothes to wear, in order to make them look smarter or to disguise them. Mother loved to dress me up. PHRASAL VERB: V n P 3. If you dress something up, you try to make it seem more attractive, acceptable, or interesting than it really is. Politicians dress up their ruthless ambition as a pursuit of the public good... However you dress it up, a bank only exists to lend money. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 4. see also dressed up, dressing-up ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
4.
{v.} 1a. To put on best or special clothes. * /Billy hated being dressed up and took off his best suit as soon as he got home from church./ 1b. To put on a costume for fun or clothes for a part in a play. * /Mary was dressed up to play Cinderella in her school play./ 2. To make (something) look different; make (something) seem better or more important. * /A fresh coat of paint will dress up the old bicycle very much./ * /Tommy dressed up the story of what he did on vacation and made it seem twice as interesting as it was./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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