dressed
adjective
[ drɛst ]
• (of food, especially poultry or shellfish) cleaned and prepared for cooking or eating.
• "dressed crab"
• (of stone) having had the surface smoothed.
• "a fine frontage in red brick with dressed white stone on the facings"
• (of an artificial fly) made for use in fishing.
• "a dressed wet fly"
dress
verb
• put on one's clothes.
• "Graham showered and dressed quickly"
Similar:
put on clothes,
don clothes,
slip into clothes,
clothe oneself,
get dressed,
• decorate (something) in an artistic or attractive way.
• "she'd enjoyed dressing the tree when the children were little"
Similar:
decorate,
adorn,
ornament,
trim,
deck,
bedeck,
embellish,
beautify,
prettify,
array,
festoon,
garland,
rig,
drape,
garnish,
furbish,
enhance,
grace,
enrich,
trick out,
tart up,
furbelow,
• clean, treat, or apply a dressing to (a wound).
• "she washed the wound and dressed it with fresh bandages"
• clean and prepare (food, especially poultry or shellfish) for cooking or eating.
• "dress the crab and shell the prawns"
• apply a fertilizer to (an area of ground or a plant).
• "the field was dressed with unrotted farmyard manure"
• draw up (troops) in the proper alignment.
Similar:
line up,
put in line,
align,
straighten,
arrange,
put into order,
dispose,
set out,
get into rows/columns,
fall in,
• (of a man) have the genitals habitually on one or the other side of the fork of the trousers.
• "do you dress to the left?"
• make (an artificial fly) for use in fishing.
• "after you dress a dry fly, be sure to remove any oil before you make your next cast"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘put straight’): from Old French dresser ‘arrange, prepare’, based on Latin directus ‘direct, straight’.
