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DRESSING DOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dressing down mean?
• DRESSING DOWN (noun)
The noun DRESSING DOWN has 1 sense:
1. a severe scolding
Familiarity information: DRESSING DOWN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A severe scolding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bawling out; castigation; chewing out; dressing down; earful; going-over; upbraiding
Hypernyms ("dressing down" is a kind of...):
rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)
Context examples
This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have a dressing down!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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