dress up

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dress up
verbo intransitivo
1arreglarse, vestirse de etiqueta (elegantly); disfrazarse (in fancy dress)(as de)

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dress up [dres]
1Ponerse elegante (dress smartly).
  • All dressed up and no place/nowhere to go -> compuesta y sin novio
2Disfrazarse (in fancy dress).
  • To dress up as something -> disfrazarse de algo
3Disfrazar (idea, plan).
  • Criticism dressed up as advice -> críticas disfrazadas de consejos

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dress up
verb:intransitive:plus_adverb
(in smart clothes) ponerse elegante; (formally) vestirse de etiqueta; (in fancy dress) disfrazarse
I love dressing up in period clothes you don't need to dress up for dinner
verb:transitive:plus_adverb
1 (in smart clothes) poner elegante; (in fancy dress) disfrazar
you're all dressed up, are you going somewhere? vas muy elegante, ¿es que vas a algún sitio?
she dresses her children up even to go to the local supermarket
to dress sb up as sth disfrazar vestir a algn de algo;or
she dressed her son up as a pirate little girls dressed up as angels to be dressed [up] all dressed up and nowhere to go dressed up to the nines
nine
2 (improve appearance of) [+facts, events] disfrazar
I can't dress it up in the right words like Jake can
it was a pile of scrap metal dressed up as art era un montón de chatarra disfrazado de arte; they dressed the setback up as a triumph hicieron creer que el revés había sido en realidad un triunfo
to be dressed up [as] sth he tried to organise things so that the trip would be dressed up as a UN mission

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