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dressed the part

dressed the part is the simple past and past participle of dress the part.

Meaning of dress the part

Verb

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

  1. To wear the clothing that is appropriate to a role.

Questions about dressed the part

What is dressed the part the simple past and past participle of?
Dressed the part is the simple past and past participle of dress the part.

Words near dressed the part in the dictionary

  1. dressed down
  2. dressed herring
  3. dressed off
  4. dressed out
  5. dressed the house
  6. dressed the part
  7. dressed to kill
  8. dressed to the nines
  9. dressed up
  10. dressed up like a Christmas tree
  11. dressed up like a dog's dinner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dressed the part (page history and authors); dress the part (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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