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dress
What does dress mean?
dress (verb): put on clothes.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use dress in a sentence?
- We had to dress quickly. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- Can the child dress by herself? (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce dress?
/dɹɛs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does dress come from?
The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (Modern French dresser).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to dress
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “dress” mean?
put into print
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have in common
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demand payment
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put on clothes
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