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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dress up
v
  1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
    Synonym(s): overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out
    Antonym(s): dress down, underdress
  2. make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
    Synonym(s): dress up, window-dress
  3. put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"
    Synonym(s): caparison, bard, barde, dress up
  4. dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
    Synonym(s): costume, dress up
  5. dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
    Synonym(s): dress, dress up
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