Dress up

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1. dress... up p.v. When you dress up, you wear very nice clothes, often for a special occasion. When you dress people up, you put very nice clothes on them/ often for a special occasion.

You should always dress up for a job interview.

The Taylors dressed their children up so they could take some pictures.

dressed up part.adj. When you are dressed up, you are wearing very nice clothes, often for a special occasion.

Where are Tom and Nancy going? They're all dressed up.

I felt like an idiot at the party — everyone was really dressed up except me.

2. dress up (like/as) p.v. When people wear old-fashioned clothes or costumes, they dress up, dress up like someone, or dress up as someone.

Did you see Charles at the Halloween party? He dressed up like a cowboy.

At Jane's costume party, everyone has to dress up as a clown.

Dry up

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1. dry... up p.v. When something dries up or something dries it up, all the water or other liquid in it goes away.

The sun came out and dried up all the rain. The Great Salt Lake is slowly drying up.

dried up part.adj. After all water or other liquid in something goes away, it is dried up.

The cowboys reached the river only to find that it was dried up.

These leaves will burn okay now that they're dried up.

2. dry up p.v. When the amount or supply of something gets smaller and then disappears completely, it dries up.

The factory switched to synthetic rubber after the supply of natural rubber dried up.

The small grocery store's business dried up after a huge supermarket opened across the street.

Infinitive
	present tense	-ing form	past tense	past participle
fill out	fill out & fills out	filling out	filled out	filled out

 

1. fill... out p.v. When you fill out a form, you put information in the correct spaces. Fill in is the same as fill out.

The personnel director asked Sofia to fill out an application.

Fill the withdrawal slip out and give it to the teller.

filled out partadj. After all the information is in the correct spaces of a form, the form is filled out.

Here's my application; it's all filled out. Are these forms blank or filled out?

2. fill... out p.v. When slender people gain weight, they fill out.

Jake was really thin when he got out of prison, but he has really filled out since then.

Nicole started to fill out after she started working at the candy shop.