dresses up

present tense third-person singular of dress up
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as in spruces
to make more desirable dressed up the house with new windows and a paint job before putting it on the market

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dresses up
Verb
  • Rooker unsurprisingly embraces the lunacy of his character, who dresses in Native American drag and tastes bird poop to track his prey.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario and becomes a servant to Duke Orsino (Khris Davis).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Denzel plays the earnest private with a secret with a smart, eager-to-please manner that disguises the cunning and danger underneath.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • What is framed as independence often masks a deeper vulnerability.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • When planetary scientists say the interior of Mars resembles a rocky road brownie more than a piece of buttery shortbread, the tasty metaphor masks billions of years of geological violence.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Guests arrive via a winding, jungle-like path that conceals the building from view until the final turn, when the view suddenly opens to a giant round portico, four stories high and 120 feet across that appears to float despite its 3,000-ton weight.
    Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Find those iconic horses emblazoned in silver onto the oakwood base of their Dry Air Diffuser, which conceals a discrete fan and ventilation system.
    Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Growing carrots in cool weather sweetens their flavor.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The fog may roll in, but the coastline never hides for long.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maddie hides her binging and purging from Deena and Jake, lying about being pregnant to distract her husband from what’s really going on.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those who forecast 50% of entry-level jobs may be wiped out by AI as the technology improves, including being able to work eight-hour shifts without a break.
    Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Maria’s relationship with Sylvia improves, as well as with the deputy head Sam (Jacob Anderson, completely unrecognizable from his Game of Thrones era), with whom Maria used to be in a romantic relationship.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In addition, the Pilot Pack ($3,400) enhances the Polestar 2’s safety features with 360-degree cameras, adaptive cruise control and more.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Treating technology migration and cultural integration as complementary strategies reduces friction and enhances adoption.
    Benjamin Niaulin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Dresses up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dresses%20up. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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