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verb     dress pronunciation in American English
Word Forms
present tense
present participledressing
past tensedressed
past participledressed
  1. 1

    It only took her ten minutes to shower and dress.

    1. a.
      [transitive] to put clothes on someone

      We wash the children and dress them for school.

      dress yourself:

      Our youngest boy can already dress himself.

    2. b.
      [intransitive] to put on clothes of a particular type
      dress in:

      He tends to dress in dark colors.

      dress as:

      The nurses had decided to dress as clowns for Halloween.

    3. c.
      [transitive] to choose or design the clothes that someone wears

      He dresses many of Europe’s most glamorous women.

    4. d.
      dress for:

      I would suggest that you dress for cold weather.


  2. 3
    [transitive] to add flavor to a salad by putting a mixture of liquids such as oil and lemon juice on it. The mixture is called a dressing.
  3. 4
    [transitive] to prepare something such as a chicken or crab (=an ocean animal) by cleaning it and taking out the parts that you cannot eat

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