dress up
穿衣,化裝,打扮
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" [syn: 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, overdress]
[ant: dress down]
2: make something appear superficially attractive; "The
researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data";
"Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth" [syn: window-dress]
3: put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive
occasion" [syn: caparison, bard]
4: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as
pumpkins" [syn: costume]
5: dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris
fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie" [syn: dress]