Dress

Quick meaning: Dress is a verb meaning To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.

Meaning

To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.

More Meanings

1. To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
2. To arrange or style (someone's hair).
3. To adorn or ornament (something).
4. To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
5. To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
6. To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
7. To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.

Example Sentences

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?

The fashion designer was proud to have dressed the queen for the charity event.

Word Forms

• dresses
• dressing
• dressed
• drest

Synonyms for dress

Depending on context, synonyms include attire, don, accouter, apparel, array, beclothe.

Antonyms for dress

Common opposites include strip, undress, denude, despoil, dismantle, disrobe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attire, dress out, raiment, clothe, garment, garb.

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