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 dress down
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 dress down
      v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
           for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
           Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
           for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke,
            rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
            call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate,
            chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
      2: put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed
         impression [syn: underdress] [ant: dress up]