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dressing
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- first wash and then dress the wound
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- unbandaging
- let's dress up the room with some greenery for the holiday party
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- adorning,
- arraying,
- beautifying,
- bedecking,
- bedizening,
- blazoning,
- caparisoning,
- decking,
- decorating,
- doing,
- doing up,
- dolling up,
- draping,
- embellishing,
- emblazing,
- embossing,
- enriching,
- fancifying,
- fancying up,
- festooning,
- garnishing,
- glitzing (up),
- gracing,
- gussying up,
- ornamenting,
- prettying (up),
- trimming
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- dress the granite block to be used as the headstone on all four sides
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- dressed the young girl in satin and lace
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- accoutring
- (or accoutering),
- bedighting
- [archaic],
- equipping,
- furnishing,
- habilitating,
- outfitting,
- tailoring,
- uniforming
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- disarraying,
- disrobing,
- stripping,
- unclothing,
- undressing,
- untrussing
- [archaic]
- we don't usually dress for dinner
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- appareling
- (or apparelling),
- arraying,
- attiring,
- bedecking,
- bedizening,
- caparisoning,
- clothing,
- costuming,
- decking,
- duding (up),
- garbing,
- garmenting,
- investing,
- rigging (out),
- robing,
- suiting,
- togging (out or up)
- dress the beans by applying fertilizer once a week
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“Dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dressing. Accessed 22 May. 2022.
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