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dress down

Definitions

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  • verb idiomatic To scold
  • verb To wear casual or informal clothes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb dress informally and casually
  • verb censure severely or angrily

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synonyms (21)

Words with the same meaning

  1. call down
  2. come down on
  3. flax
  4. give a dressing-down
  5. give it to
  6. hide
  7. jump all over
  8. jump on
  9. larrup
  10. lather
  11. leather
  12. lick
  13. paddle
  14. speak to
  15. talk to
  16. tan
  17. tell off
  18. trim
  19. wallop
  20. welt
  21. whale

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. dress
  2. get dressed

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. dress up

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