dressed

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♦ dressed /dr'est/
1 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ
If you are dressed, you are wearing clothes rather than being naked or wearing your night clothes. If you get dressed, you put on your clothes.
He was fully dressed, including shoes...
He went into his bedroom to get dressed.
2 [ADJ] v-link ADJ in/as n, adv ADJ
If you are dressed in a particular way, you are wearing clothes of a particular colour or kind.
...a tall thin woman dressed in black.
see also well-dresseddressed up
1 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ
If someone is dressed up, they are wearing special clothes, in order to look smarter than usual or in order to disguise themselves.
You're all dressed up. Are you going somewhere?...
2 [ADJ] v-link ADJ as/in n
If you say that something is dressed up as something else, you mean that someone has tried to make it more acceptable or attractive by making it seem like that other thing.
He tried to organise things so that the trip would be dressed up as a UN mission.
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dressed up to the nines: see nine

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