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To dress up means to wear fine, very smart or formal clothing. To dress down means to sharply criticize, chastise, scold someone. "The teacher really gave Mary a good dressing down for using her cellphone in class." Additionally, to "dress up" something might mean to verbally make something look better than it is, perhaps a nasty situation or action. "Let's not dress up Mary's actions as harmless nonsense; it disturbs the others in the class.

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