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WINDOW-DRESS
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make something appear superficially attractive
Example:
Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
Synonyms:
dress up; window-dress
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "window-dress" is one way to...):
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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