dress down
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(verb) put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression |
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Synonyms: underdress |
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Related Words: dress, get dressed |
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Antonyms: dress up |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic |
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Synonyms: bawl out, berate, check, chew out, chew up, chide, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold |
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Related Words: brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, criticise, criticize, objurgate, pick apart, tell off |
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