OVERDRESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does overdress mean?
• OVERDRESS (verb)
The verb OVERDRESS has 2 senses:
1. dress excessively
2. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Familiarity information: OVERDRESS used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OVERDRESS (verb)
Meaning:
Dress excessively
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
overclothe; overdress
Context example:
You should not overclothe the child--she will be too hot
Hypernyms (to "overdress" is one way to...):
apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog (provide with clothes or put clothes on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
attire; rig out; tog up; trick out; gussy up; trick up; fig up; fig out; fancy up; dress up; deck up; deck out; tog out; prink; overdress; get up
Context examples:
She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera / The young girls were all fancied up for the party
Hypernyms (to "overdress" is one way to...):
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overdress"):
dress; plume; preen; primp (dress or groom with elaborate care)
prank (dress up showily)
tart up (dress up in a cheap and provocative way)
enrobe (adorn with a robe)
bedizen; dizen (dress up garishly and tastelessly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
