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dressing out

dressing out is the present participle and gerund of dress out.

Meaning of dress out

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
  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

Questions about dressing out

What is dressing out the present participle and gerund of?
Dressing out is the present participle and gerund of dress out.

Words near dressing out in the dictionary

  1. dressing jacket
  2. dressing jackets
  3. dressing mirror
  4. dressing mirrors
  5. dressing off
  6. dressing out
  7. dressing room
  8. dressing rooms
  9. dressing sack
  10. dressing sacks
  11. dressing station

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