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dressed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d??st/
  • Rhymes: -?st

Verb

dressed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dress
    • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
      ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
    the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

Translations

Adjective

dressed (not comparable)

  1. Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. [from 14th c.]
  2. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. [from 16th c.]
  3. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

  • (wearing clothes): dressed, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed

Anagrams

  • eddress

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attired

English

Verb

attired

  1. simple past tense and past participle of attire

Adjective

attired (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Said of the horns of a stag when they are of a different tincture to its head.

Translations

References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

  • detrita, eat dirt

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