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present tense form of dress (3rd person singular).
plural of dress.

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dresses

NOUN

clothing; woman's garment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apparel attire costume ensemble frock garb gown robe skirt smock suit uniform wardrobe

STRONG

accouterment civvies covering drape duds gear guise habiliment habit muumuu outfit pinafore raiment shift things threads tog toga trappings vestment

WEAK

Sunday best attirement dry goods evening clothes toggery

VERB

put on clothing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adorn attire clothe cover decorate don drape put on trim turn out wear

STRONG

apparel array bedeck change clad costume deck embellish furbish garb ornament outfit primp raiment rig robe

WEAK

bundle up fit out slip into slip on spruce up suit up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disrobe reveal take off uncover

STRONG

uglify unclothe

WEAK

bare disarray lay bare mess up open rumple undress wrinkle

VERB

physically prepare; groom

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arrange decorate do up fit trim

STRONG

adjust align comb dispose ornament set straighten

WEAK

make ready

Antonyms

STRONG

disarrange disorder displace

WEAK

bare disarray disrobe lay bare mess up open rumple unclothe uncover undress wrinkle

VERB

cover a wound

Synonyms

STRONGEST

treat

STRONG

attend bandage bind cauterize cleanse heal plaster sterilize

WEAK

give first aid sew up

Antonyms

STRONG

dirty

WEAK

bare disarray disrobe lay bare mess up open rumple unclothe uncover undress wrinkle

Example Sentences

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Even before her election victory, Bird was drawing comment online over her family background, her education, how she dresses and the fact that she doesn't use her full legal name - Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

Theresa, a retired Verizon technician living in Harlem, started selling Knicks t-shirts and dresses that she printed herself.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

The windows of the Druzhkivka tram were open on a sweltering summer afternoon as women wearing flowery dresses and men in light shirts made their way to the weekend market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

This last category of ’90s babydoll dresses, the ones that hung on the racks at Express and Rampage and Merry-Go-Round, weren’t Mod, weren’t punk, and weren’t Kinderwhore.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

His wife gave me two old dresses and a photograph of herself—I tore the picture up the minute I was out of sight!

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer