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dress out

dress out verb: to change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.

Verb

dress out (third-person singular simple present dresses out, present participle dressing out, simple past and past participle dressed out)

  1. (intransitive) To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.
    • I would rather have the mumps than dress out for gym. I2014, Angela Medearis, Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections
  2. (transitive) To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital.
    • On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not...1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines
    • Proper Dress-out.
      1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
      2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents
  3. (ergative, sometimes, transitive) To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption.
    • The biggest buck I've killed there dressed out at 188 pounds.1985, Byron W. Dalrymple, Field & Stream - Vol. 90, No. 3

Forms of dress out

third-person singular presentdresses out
present participledressing out
past participledressed out
pastdressed out

Words formed from dress out

Questions about dress out

What does dress out mean?
Dress out means to change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.
What part of speech is dress out?
Dress out is a verb.
What is the past tense of dress out?
The past tense of dress out is dressed out.

Words near dress out in the dictionary

  1. dress form
  2. dress forms
  3. dress guard
  4. dress guards
  5. dress off
  6. dress out
  7. dress pants
  8. dress parade
  9. dress rehearsal
  10. dress rehearsals
  11. dress sense

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