Dress up | EWA Phasal Verbs Dictionary
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Dress up

/drɛs ʌp/

B1

PreIntermediate

1. To put on formal clothes or a costume.

  • We need to dress up for the formal dinner tonight.
  • She loves to dress up as a princess for Halloween.

2. To make something look better or more attractive.

  • They tried to dress up the old building with some fresh paint.
  • The marketing team dressed up the report with charts and graphs to impress the board.

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