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How to pronounce dress up in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up
Type of get dressed, dress
Has types primp, preen, tart up, prank, plume, dizen, bedizen, enrobe, dress
Verb group costume, dress
Type Words
Synonyms window-dress
Type of embellish, beautify, fancify, prettify


The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data.
Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth.
Type Words
Synonyms bard, barde, caparison
Type of grace, decorate, ornament, embellish, beautify, adorn
Type Words
Synonyms dress
Type of dress, get dressed
Has types vest
Verb group fancy up, trick up, trick out, tog up, tog out, rig out, deck out, prink, deck up, overdress, gussy up, dress, get up, attire, fig up, get dressed, fig out
Type Words
Synonyms costume
Type of tog, apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment
Verb group deck up, attire, fancy up, fig up, trick out, trick up, get up, fig out, gussy up, tog up, overdress, tog out, deck out, rig out, prink

Examples of dress up

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Faux wood, honeycomb blinds, roman or vertical shades can dress up your windows.
From the omaha.com
Dress up in period costumes, pose with the museum cow and have your photo taken.
From the dailyherald.com
A blogger suggested Bassem dress up as Muslim and Christian news correspondents.
From the latimes.com
There's no way to dress up the Patriots'performance at New Orleans Monday night.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Efforts to make math more fun or dress up textbooks are not the answer, he said.
From the washingtonpost.com
You can dress SOEs up in sheeps clothing, but underneath they really are wolves.
From the nbr.co.nz
You don't have to dress up and best of all I get to work with crops and animals.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Girls begin wearing a cape for church and dress up occasions at about age eight.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Big laughs looking a this morning's Royal Wedding Today Show Halloween dress up.
From the huffingtonpost.com