dress

1. (transitive)Examples: "He was dressed in the latest fashions."; "My kids are old enough to dress themselves now."; "O rich! rich! vvhere ſhould I get clothes to dreſſe her in?"Synonyms: attire, don, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclotheAntonyms: strip, undress, clothealsofigurativelyreflexivetransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[A]ll the men there shoulde dresse themselves like the poorest sorte of the people in Arcadia, having no banners, but bloudie shirtes hanged upon long staves, […]"; "[…] Anthony [i.e., Mark Antony] himſelfe was quite beſotted with Cleopatra’s ſweete ſpeeches, philters, beauty, pleaſing tires: for when ſhe ſailed along the riuer Cydnus, with ſuch incredible pompe in a guilded ſhip, her ſelfe dreſſed like Venus, her maides like the Graces, her Pages like ſo many Cupids, Anthony was amazed, & rapt beyond himſelfe."; "[H]e and I […] to the King's playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther and his wife and mine, and into a box, forsooth, neither of them being dressed, which I was almost ashamed of."Synonyms: attire, don, accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclotheAntonyms: strip, undress, clothealsofigurativelyreflexivespecificallytransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "The fashion designer was proud to have dressed the queen for the charity event."transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "[Domitian] after his manner, with a cheerfull countenance and grieved heart, received the newes: being inwardly pricked, to think that his later counterfet triumph of Germany, wherin certain ſlaves bought for mony were attired and their haire dreſſed as captives of that country, was had in deriſion and iuſtly skorned abroad: […]"; "By and by the King and Queen, who looked in this dress (a white laced waistcoat and a crimson short pettycoat, and her hair dressed à la negligence) mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her."transitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again."; "But at night I would roam abroad and play / With the mermaids in and out of the rocks, / Dressing their hair with the white sea-flower, / And holding them back by their flowing locks […]"; "There was no occasion for [Francis] Jeffrey to have written with such extreme harshness. If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form."alsofigurativelytransitive

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