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| Shopping | The largest selection of DRESS DOWN products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| VERB | 1 | dress down, call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast | Censure severely or angrily |
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| 2 | dress down, underdress | Put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression |
| Meaning | Censure severely or angrily. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | Sam cannot dress down Sue |
| Synonyms | call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast |
| Broader | knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart |
| Narrower | chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct; tell off, brush down |
| Meaning | Put on clothes that make a careless or ill-dressed impression. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | underdress |
| Contrary | dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress |
| Broader | dress, get dressed |
| See also | dress |
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