dress up

Verb

• dress in a certain manner
  • She dresses in the latest Paris fashion
    
  • he dressed up in a suit and tie
    

• dress in a costume
  • We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins
    

• put a caparison on
  • caparison the horses for the festive occasion
    

• make something appear superficially attractive
  • The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
    
  • Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
    

• put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
  • She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
    
  • The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dress , costume , caparison , bard , barde , window-dress , overdress , fig out , fig up , deck up , gussy up , fancy up , trick up , deck out , trick out