Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dress
Participle: dressed
Gerund: dressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dress |
| you | dress |
| he;she;it | dresses |
| we | dress |
| you | dress |
| they | dress |
Perfect
| I | have dressed |
| you | have dressed |
| he;she;it | has dressed |
| we | have dressed |
| you | have dressed |
| they | have dressed |
Past
| I | dressed |
| you | dressed |
| he;she;it | dressed |
| we | dressed |
| you | dressed |
| they | dressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dressed |
| you | had dressed |
| he;she;it | had dressed |
| we | had dressed |
| you | had dressed |
| they | had dressed |
Future
| I | will dress |
| you | will dress |
| he;she;it | will dress |
| we | will dress |
| you | will dress |
| they | will dress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dressed |
| you | will have dressed |
| he;she;it | will have dressed |
| we | will have dressed |
| you | will have dressed |
| they | will have dressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dress |
| you | dress |
| he;she;it | dress |
| we | dress |
| you | dress |
| they | dress |
Perfect
| I | have dressed |
| you | have dressed |
| he;she;it | have dressed |
| we | have dressed |
| you | have dressed |
| they | have dressed |
Imperfect
| I | dressed |
| you | dressed |
| he;she;it | dressed |
| we | dressed |
| you | dressed |
| they | dressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had dressed |
| you | had dressed |
| he;she;it | had dressed |
| we | had dressed |
| you | had dressed |
| they | had dressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dress |
| you | would dress |
| he;she;it | would dress |
| we | would dress |
| you | would dress |
| they | would dress |
Perfect
| I | would have dressed |
| you | would have dressed |
| he;she;it | would have dressed |
| we | would have dressed |
| you | would have dressed |
| they | would have dressed |
Imperative
| you | dress |
| we | Let's dress |
| you | dress |
Verbs conjugated like 'dress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dress'
dross,
duress,
fress,
press,
tress,
address,
adpress,
bless,
brass,
caress,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- clothe (something or somebody)
- clothe
- to adorn or cover with clothing
- accouter, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, clothe, dight, don, enrobe, equip, invest, put on, robe, slip on
- clothe
- trick, accouter, costume, apparel, outfit, array, attire
- decorate
- adorn, ornament, trim
- align
- straighten
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *dwís
3. The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *dīrēctiāre (“to guide, direct”), from Classical Latin dīrēctus, whence English direct. Further akin to Latin regō.
4. The noun is derived from the verb.
5. Compare typologically adorn (<< Latin ōrnō < ōrdō, whence also ōrdinō, English order, ornament); Russian наряжа́ть (narjažátʹ), наря́д (narjád) (akin to ряд (rjad), поря́док (porjádok)). See: Middle English '
dressen', Old French '
dresser', French '
dresser'.
Verbs referencing "dress"
Sranan
dresi.
Sample Sentences
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[...] rich promise of serious intentions. Packing-cases, portmanteaus, carpet-bags, and boxes, are already passed from hand to hand, and hauled on board with breathless rapidity. The officers, smartly dressed, are at the gangway handing the passengers up the side, and hurrying the men. In five minutes ’ time, the little steamer is utterly deserted, and the packet is beset and over-run by its late [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Once—once—I found myself on deck. I do n't know how I got there, or what possessed me to go there, but there I was; and completely dressed too, with a huge pea-coat on, and a pair of boots such as no weak man in his senses could ever have got into. I found myself standing, when a gleam of consciousness came upon me, holding on to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I was dressing about half-past nine next day, when the noise above hurried me on deck. When I had left it overnight, it was dark, foggy, and damp, and there were bleak hills all round us. Now, we were gliding [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Heard her say so, my own self, dis blessed mornin ’, when I bring in Mas’r's shaving-water. She sent me to see why Lizy didn't come to dress her; and when I telled her she was off, she jest ris up, and ses she, ‘The Lord be praised; ’ and Mas’r, he seemed rael mad, and ses he, ‘Wife, you talk like a fool. ’ But Lor ! she'll bring him to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] many of which impress me as being exceedingly ludicrous. Strange as it may seem too, there is undoubtedly a degree of protection in the wig and gown—a dismissal of individual responsibility in dressing for the part—which encourages that insolent bearing and language, and that gross perversion of the office of a pleader for The Truth, so frequent in our courts of law. Still, I cannot help doubting [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to arrive at the first factory just as the dinner hour was over, and the girls were returning to their work; indeed the stairs of the mill were thronged with them as I ascended. They were all well dressed, but not to my thinking above their condition; for I like to see the humbler classes of society careful of their dress and appearance, and even, if they please, decorated with such little trinkets [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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These girls, as I have said, were all well dressed: and that phrase necessarily includes extreme cleanliness. They had serviceable bonnets, good warm cloaks, and shawls; and were not above clogs and pattens. Moreover, there were places in the mill [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] on the occasion of a visit from General Jackson or General Harrison to this town (I forget which, but it is not to the purpose ), he walked through three miles and a half of these young ladies all dressed out with parasols and silk stockings. But as I am not aware that any worse consequence ensued, than a sudden looking-up of all the parasols and silk stockings in the market; and perhaps the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Haley hastened out. Standing by the bar, in the corner of the room, was a brawny, muscular man, full six feet in height, and broad in proportion. He was dressed in a coat of buffalo-skin, made with the hair outward, which gave him a shaggy and fierce appearance, perfectly in keeping with the whole air of his physiognomy. In the head and face every organ and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I was taken to these Institutions by water, in a boat belonging to the Island jail, and rowed by a crew of prisoners, who were dressed in a striped uniform of black and buff, in which they looked like faded tigers. They took me, by the same conveyance, to the jail itself.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Troll king ? Why are you dressed like that jolly imbecile ?
(A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas)
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along just as smoothly. I wasn't hung up in traffic, and I had dressed that morning
(Suburban Fury)
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Dressed as a clown. And then there's the Terminator, and then a policeman. Two shots, please.
(Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties)
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Dai ! If you dress yourself like Linga will you become Linga himself ? Look how ridiculous!!
(Magudam)