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GET DRESSED
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
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:
Somebody ----s
