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dress to kill

dress to kill verb: to dress up so as to impress others (especially of the opposite sex).

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To dress up so as to impress others (especially of the opposite sex).

Forms of dress to kill

third-person singular presentdresses to kill
present participledressing to kill
past participledressed to kill
pastdressed to kill

Questions about dress to kill

What does dress to kill mean?
Dress to kill means to dress up so as to impress others (especially of the opposite sex).
What part of speech is dress to kill?
Dress to kill is a verb.
What is the past tense of dress to kill?
The past tense of dress to kill is dressed to kill.

Words near dress to kill in the dictionary

  1. dress suit
  2. dress suits
  3. dress tape
  4. dress the house
  5. dress the part
  6. dress to kill
  7. dress up
  8. dress'd
  9. dress-code
  10. dress-coded
  11. dress-codes

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