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dressed

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈdɹɛst//

Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dresssimple past and past participle of dress

    the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

    ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.

  2. 2

    Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.

  3. 3

    Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).

  4. 4

    Wearing a dress.

    No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.

    hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons

    She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).