150 Dress up
(PW) wear one’s best clothing
We needed to dress up for this wedding.
(free)
To wear formal or fancy clothes: They dressed up and went to the prom.
(die.net)
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]
2: make something appear superficially attractive; "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
3: put a caparison on; of horses
4: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
5: dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion": "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
(MW) verb Date: 1635 transitive verb
1 : to make more attractive, glamorous, or fancy dress up a plain dessert with a rich chocolate sauce>
2 a : to attire in best or formal clothes b : to attire in clothes suited to a particular role
3 : to present in the most attractive or impressive light dressed up as a triumph>intransitive verb : to get dressed up
