dressings

Meanings

Noun

• savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
• a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
• making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
• a cloth covering for a wound or sore
• processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
• the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
• the act of applying a bandage
• plural of dressing

Verb

• put on clothes
• provide with clothes or put clothes on
• put a finish on
• dress in a certain manner
• dress or groom with elaborate care
• kill and prepare for market or consumption
• arrange in ranks
• decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
• provide with decoration
• put a dressing on
• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
• cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
• convert into leather
• apply a bandage or medication to
• give a neat appearance to
• arrange attractively

Synonyms

apparel, arrange, bandaging, binding, clip, clothe, coif, coiffe, coiffure, crop, curry, cut back, decorate, do, dress, dress out, dress up, dressing, enclothe, fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization, fit out, garb, garment, garnish, get dressed, groom, grooming, habilitate, line up, lop, medical dressing, plume, preen, primp, prune, raiment, salad dressing, set, snip, stuffing, tog, trim

Antonyms

undress