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单词 dresses down
释义

dress down

verb

dressed down; dressing down; dresses down

transitive verb

: to reprove severely

intransitive verb

: to dress casually especially for reasons of fashion

Synonyms

  • baste
  • bawl out
  • berate
  • call down
  • castigate
  • chastise
  • chew out
  • flay
  • hammer
  • jaw
  • keelhaul
  • lambaste
  • lambast
  • lecture
  • rag
  • rail (at or against)
  • rant (at)
  • rate
  • ream (out)
  • rebuke
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • scold
  • score
  • tongue-lash
  • upbraid
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Example Sentences

dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance
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Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

dresses down

verb

present tense third-person singular of dress down
as in lectures
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • lectures
  • scolds
  • calls down
  • reprimands
  • bawls out
  • blames
  • lays into
  • criticizes
  • rails (at or against)
  • keelhauls
  • reads the riot act (to)
  • chews out
  • tongue-lashes
  • rates
  • berates
  • rags
  • jaws
  • upbraids
  • rants (at)
  • attacks
  • reams (out)
  • rebukes
  • chastises
  • scores
  • admonishes
  • faults
  • reproaches
  • flays
  • castigates
  • hammers
  • bastes
  • mocks
  • lambasts
  • takes to task
  • reprehends
  • lambastes
  • remonstrates (with)
  • vituperates
  • chides
  • slams
  • pans
  • crucifies
  • puts down
  • lashes
  • condemns
  • knocks
  • denounces
  • reviles
  • harangues
  • abuses
  • blasts
  • assails
  • reproves
  • scourges
  • censures
  • excoriates
  • ridicules
  • belittles
  • laces (into)
  • scoffs
  • disparages
  • scorns
  • bad-mouths
  • disses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • approves
  • endorses
  • indorses
  • sanctions
  • praises
  • lauds
  • extols
  • extolls
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