GET DRESSED

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Put on clothes

Example:

Can the child dress by herself?

Synonyms:

dress; get dressed

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "get dressed" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)

dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get dressed"):

attire; deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up (put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive)

dress; dress up (dress in a certain manner)

dress down; underdress (dress informally and casually)

prink (dress very carefully and in a finicky manner)

bundle up (dress warmly)

assume; don; get into; put on; wear (put clothing on one's body)

cross-dress (dress in the clothes of the other sex)

dandify (dress like a dandy)

change (change clothes; put on different clothes)

Sentence frame:

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