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1
to put on one's best or formal clothes
- we always like to dress up when going to parties
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2
to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity
- the war was a fiasco that the administration tried to dress up as a triumph
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4
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
- the girls were dressed up in skirts or dresses, but the boys were wearing jeans
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The first known use of dress up was circa 1513
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