1. A sauce or condiment used to flavour, moisten, and enhance a salad
   "She tossed the greens with a tangy vinaigrette dressing";
   - salad dressing
    
2. [N. Amer] A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
   "She prepared a sage and onion dressing for the turkey";
   - stuffing
    
3. A cloth covering for a wound or sore
   "The nurse applied a sterile medical dressing to the injury";
   - medical dressing
    
4. The act of applying a bandage
   "Proper dressing technique is crucial for wound healing";
   - bandaging, binding
    
5. Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
   "The dressing of the lawn with compost promoted lush growth";
   - fertilization, fertilisation [Brit], fecundation
    
6. The activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
   "His morning dressing routine took nearly an hour";
   - grooming
    
7. A process in the conversion of rough hides into leather
   "The dressing of the hides involved several chemical treatments"

1. Put on clothes
   "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself?"; "we had to dress quickly";
   - get dressed
    
2. Provide with clothes or put clothes on
   "Parents must feed and dress their child";
   - clothe, enclothe [rare], garb, raiment [archaic], tog [informal], garment, habilitate [archaic], fit out, apparel [archaic]
    
3. Wear clothes in a certain manner or of a certain style
   "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie";
   - dress up
    
4. Dress or groom with elaborate care
   "She likes to dress when going to the opera";
   - preen, primp, plume
    
5. Give a neat appearance to
   "dress the horses";
   - groom, curry
    
6. Style or arrange hair attractively
   "dress my hair for the wedding";
   - arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure
    
7. (medicine) apply a bandage or medication to
   "dress the victim's wounds"
    
8. Put a finish on
   "dress the surface smooth"
    
9. Provide with decoration
   "dress the windows";
   - decorate
    
10. Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
    "He dressed the salad with edible flowers";
    - trim, garnish
     
11. (cooking) put a dressing on
    "dress the salads"
     
12. Kill and prepare for market or consumption
    "dress a turkey"; "The hunters dressed out the deer before bringing it home";
    - dress out
     
13. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
    "dress the plants in the garden";
    - snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, prune, cut back
     
14. Cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
    "The carpenter dressed the boards before assembly"
     
15. Arrange in ranks
    "dress troops";
    - line up
     
16. Convert into leather
    "dress the tanned skins"

Derived forms: dressings

See also: dress down

Type of: adorn, apply, arrange, attire, beautify, care for, change, change state, cloth covering, concoction, conversion, convert, cook, covering, decorate, doll up [informal], dress up, embellish, enrichment, fancify, fancy up [informal], fig out [informal], fig up [informal], finish, fix [informal], get up, grace, groom, gussy up [N. Amer, informal], intermixture, make, medical aid, medical care, mixture, neaten, ornament, pare, position, prepare, prettify, put on, ready, rig out, sauce, set up, thin out, tog out [informal], tog up [informal], treat, trick out, trick up, trim, turn

Antonym: peel

Encyclopedia: Dressing