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dress up vs dizen

dizen vs dress up

dress up and dizen both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
dress up No No Yes No
dizen No No Yes No
As verbs, dizen is a hyponym of dress up; that is, dizen is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dress up:
  • dress up: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
  • dizen: dress up garishly and tastelessly
Other hyponyms of dress up include dress, plume, preen, primp, prank, tart up, enrobe, bedizen.
dress up (verb) dizen (verb)
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive dress up garishly and tastelessly
dress in a costume
dress in a certain manner
make something appear superficially attractive
put a caparison on
Difference between dress up and dizen

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