dress up's Usage Examples:

The soap opera Coronation Street wrote an elaborate Jubilee parade into the storyline, having Rovers' Return Inn manager Annie Walker dress up in elaborate costume as Elizabeth I.

Too large to fit inside Egan's dressing room after the ballroom sequence, undressing required assistance from three backstage crew members who used wires to hoist the dress up into the rafters, where it would be stored until the next performance.

They are social justice activists, all women old enough to be grandmothers, who dress up in clothes that mock stereotypes of older women, and sing songs at protests.

In past recent years, the more energetic members of the Pack, known as Aggie Pack Extremists, tended to dress up in elaborate yale blue and gold costumes and dairy cow makeup.

Girls dress up in flowing white dresses, boys don sharp black suits, and for weeks beforehand.

Fiesty and determined, Eric is living every kid's dream: he gets to dress up in a colourful costume and punch things, but he takes his role as a superhero-in-training very seriously.

[1] There are many annual events that generate the chance to dress up in fancy dress costumes; Christmas, New Year, birthdays, Hen and Stag parties.

This was also an attempt among LGBT community to alter the words to become more French-sounding, thus sounding more sexy, for example:Dendong from dandan (to dress up and/or apply make-up)Gedong (big, extra large, monstrous) from Javanese gedhe (big).

Lloyd each then promising to equip his twenty men apiece, and sundry other gentlemen aiding to dress up others of the rank and file.

Cherie Blair was the first British First Lady to dress up in sarees and salwar suits on formal occasions.

Symbols such as the Wagon Wheel (pack for the journey), dress up (Shoofly), and get ready to escape (Tumbling Blocks), were stitched into the quilts that draped as an alert, to those fugitive slaves with no other way out.

repeatedly from Crane by having Tiny dress up as an evil voodoo spirit to frighten away Crane"s porters.

in which people dress up as a Baltimore "hon" in a 1960s-style beehive hairdo and sunglasses and other over-stylized clothes and makeup, such as, bright.

Synonyms:

fig out, tog out, prink, bedizen, dress, get up, get dressed, dizen, trick up, primp, overdress, deck out, prank, costume, rig out, fancy up, tart up, fig up, trick out, attire, preen, deck up, tog up, plume, enrobe, gussy up,

Antonyms:

undress, dress down, underdress, dress up, stay,