dressed

dressed
[[t]dre̱st[/t]]
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1) ADJ: usu v-link ADJ If you are dressed, you are wearing clothes rather than being naked or wearing your night clothes. If you get dressed, you put on your clothes.

He was fully dressed, including shoes...

He went into his bedroom to get dressed.

2) ADJ: v-link ADJ in/as n, adv ADJ If you are dressed in a particular way, you are wearing clothes of a particular colour or kind.
→ See also well-dressed

...a tall thin woman dressed in black.

...a tall, elegantly dressed man.

3) PHRASE If someone is dressed to kill, they are wearing very smart or fashionable clothes because they want people to notice them and think they are attractive. [INFORMAL]

...a solitary blonde, beautiful, haughty and dressed to kill.


English dictionary. 2008.

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