dressed
verbDefinitions
simple past and past participle of dress
- the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
- ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
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Wearing clothes
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
Wearing a dress.
- No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
- hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
- She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
The neighborhood
Derived
all dressed, all-dressed, brain-dressed, cladly dressed, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed up, evening-dressed, full-dressed, get dressed, halfdressed, hammer-dressed, morning-dressed, mutton dressed as lamb, mutton dressed up as lamb, nondressed, overdressed, power-dressed, rough-dressed, underdressed, well-dressed
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at dressed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dressed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at dressed
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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