Definitions for drest
drest
drest
Spelling: [drest]
IPA: /drɛst/
Drest is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 71 anagrams from letters in drest (derst).
Definitions for drest
noun
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an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
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clothing; apparel; garb:
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formal attire.
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a particular form of appearance; guise.
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outer covering, as the plumage of birds.
verb
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a simple past tense and past participle of dress.
Idioms
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dress ship,
to decorate a ship by hoisting lines of flags running its full length.
U.S. Navy. to display the national ensigns at each masthead and a larger ensign on the flagstaff.
adjective
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of or for a dress or dresses.
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of or for a formal occasion.
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requiring formal dress.
Verb phrases
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dress down,
to reprimand; scold.
to thrash; beat.
to dress informally or less formally:
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dress up,
to put on one's best or fanciest clothing; dress relatively formally:
to dress in costume or in another person's clothes:
to embellish or disguise, especially in order to make more appealing or acceptable:
verb (used with object)
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to put clothing upon.
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to put formal or evening clothes on.
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to trim; ornament; adorn:
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to design clothing for or sell clothes to.
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to comb out and do up (hair).
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to cut up, trim, and remove the skin, feathers, viscera, etc., from (an animal, meat, fowl, or flesh of a fowl) for market or for cooking (often followed by out when referring to a large animal):
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to prepare (skins, fabrics, timber, stone, ore, etc.) by special processes.
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to apply medication or a dressing to (a wound or sore).
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to make straight; bring (troops) into line:
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to make (stone, wood, or other building material) smooth.
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to cultivate (land, fields, etc.).
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Theater. to arrange (a stage) by effective placement of properties, scenery, actors, etc.
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to ornament (a vessel) with ensigns, house flags, code flags, etc.:
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Angling.
to prepare or bait (a fishhook) for use.
to prepare (bait, especially an artificial fly) for use.
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Printing. to fit (furniture) around and between pages in a chase prior to locking it up.
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to supply with accessories, optional features, etc.:
verb (used without object)
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to clothe or attire oneself; put on one's clothes:
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to put on or wear formal or fancy clothes:
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to come into line, as troops.
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to align oneself with the next soldier, marcher, dancer, etc., in line.
Origin of drest
1275-1325; Middle English dressen Anglo-French dresser, dresc(i)er, to arrange, prepare, Old French drecier Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, derivative of Latin dīrēctus direc
Examples for drest
She took her letter in to her father as soon as she was drest.
One in crim-son bright is drest, With a star up-on his breast.
Sit down and rest you, and tell us how they drest you, and how you wan awa.
As soon as they are drest they must go to breakfast, and when that is done, immediately to dinner.
He was drest in black close & was appeerently as fine a man as ever was.
Blue fish, white fish, and black fish, may be drest in this manner.
A very young fawn, or a kid, may be drest in a similar manner.
A beautiful woman will be more beautiful naked than drest in purple.
He looks into the carriages, and tells me how the ladies are drest—so that I know all the fashions!
When children are naughty, and will not be drest, Pray, what do you think is the way?