dress up vs tart up

dress up and tart up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dress up	No	No	Yes	No
tart up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, tart up is a hyponym of dress up; that is, tart up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dress up:

dress up: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
tart up: dress up in a cheap and provocative way

Other hyponyms of dress up include dress, plume, preen, primp, prank, enrobe, bedizen, dizen.

dress up (verb)	tart up (verb)
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive	dress up in a cheap and provocative way
dress in a costume	decorate in a cheap and flashy way
dress in a certain manner
make something appear superficially attractive
put a caparison on