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dress [dres] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dress [dres]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing; woman's garment
Synonyms: Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, attire, attirement, civvies, costume, covering, drape, dry goods, duds, ensemble, evening clothes, frock, garb, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, muumuu, outfit, pinafore, raiment, robe, shift, skirt, smock, suit, things*, threads, tog, toga, toggery, trappings, uniform, vestment, wardrobe
Main Entry: dress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: physically prepare; groom
Synonyms: adjust, align, arrange, comb, decorate, dispose, do up, fit, make ready, ornament, set, straighten, trim
Antonyms: disarray, mess up, rumple, wrinkle
Main Entry: dress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cover a wound
Synonyms: attend, bandage, bind, cauterize, cleanse, give first aid, heal, plaster, sew up, sterilize, treat
Antonyms: open, uncover, undress
Example Sentences
  • Putting on a sparkly dress for the holidays always brightens your mood.
  • Failing to dress well suggests an incompetence that might undermine a woman's authority in other areas.
  • Forcing the elite to dress modestly suggested that power and place were no longer to be marked by yards of lace and frills.
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Main Entry: apparel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing; covering
Synonyms: accoutrement, array, attire, clothes, costume, drapery, dress, duds, equipment, garb, garment, gear*, getup, habiliment, habit, outfit, raiment, rig, robe, suit, threads, trapping, vestment
Notes: apparel highlights the sense of clothes as material; attire, the sense of clothes as dress
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outward aspect, characteristic
Synonyms: air, attitude, bearing, blind, carriage, cast, character, condition, countenance, demeanor, dress, expression, face, fashion, feature, figure, form, front, guise, image, look, looks, manner, mannerism, mien, mode, outline, pose, presence, presentation, screen, semblance, shape, stamp
Main Entry: array
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fine clothes
Synonyms: apparel, attire, drapes, dress, duds, finery, full dress, garb, garments, getup, rig, threads
Main Entry: attire
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing
Synonyms: accoutrements, apparel, array, bib and tucker, clothes, costume, drapes, dress, duds, garb, garments, gear, getup, habiliments, habit, outfit, raiment, things, threads, togs, uniform, vestment, wear
Main Entry: attire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: clothe
Synonyms: accoutre, array, clad, costume, deck, deck out, doll up, drape, dress, dud, dude up, equip, fit out, outfit, suit up, tog, turn out
Antonyms: disrobe
Main Entry: bandage
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cover a wound
Synonyms: bind, dress, swathe, truss, wrap
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