verb
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
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She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
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The young girls were all fancied up for the party
• Syn:
↑overdress, ↑dress up, ↑fig out, ↑fig up, ↑deck up, ↑gussy up, ↑fancy up, ↑trick up, ↑deck out, ↑trick out, ↑prink, ↑attire, ↑get up, ↑rig out, ↑tog up
• Ant: ↑dress down (for: ↑dress up), ↑underdress (for: ↑overdress)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑rigout (for: ↑rig out), ↑getup (for: ↑get up), ↑attire (for: ↑attire)
• Hypernyms: ↑dress, ↑get dressed
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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ˌtog ˈout ˌtog ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they tog out he/she/it togs out present participle togging out past tense togged out past participle togged out] british informal phrasal verb
to dress yourself or someone for a special occasion or activity
They were all togged out in their best clothes.
Thesaurus: to put on or be wearing clothes and to dress other peoplesynonym to remove clothes and not wear clotheshyponym
Main entry: tog
Useful english dictionary. 2012.