to get dressed
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1.0
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt drɛst/
- Can you answer the door while I get dressed?
- get dressed in the morning
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Watch on YouTubeLet me stop talking, get dressed, and we can head out.
- Let me stop talking, get dressed, and we can head out.
- I need to get in the shower, get dressed and have some breakfast.
- He told his wife and his kids, get dressed, we're going to Disney.
- But so I'm getting dressed and I didn't have a shirt to wear.
- So we all got dressed up for Halloween and we hold on.
- OK, so I'm, you know, getting dressed this morning.
- Well, mostly it's because I, I, I generally don't get dressed unless I need to.
- And she says you go upstairs, get dressed, come back then and I'll wash your dress.
- I will do my makeup, hair spray on some perfume and get dressed and I'm ready to face the day.
Examples
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I need to get in the shower, get dressed and have some breakfast.
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He told his wife and his kids, get dressed, we're going to Disney.
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Let me stop talking, get dressed, and we can head out.
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I need to get dressed and go see him
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You should see how long it takes them to get dressed for school in the morning.
Fiction book (1993) -
Fine, I go get dressed and I'll be right back.
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Toward morning, someone pushed me out of bed and told me to get dressed.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now I'm going to get dressed and walk home.
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Soon afterward, we left the beach to get dressed for dinner.
Fiction book (1991) -
I need to get dressed before we leave for the party.
Synonyms
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1.0
To dress yourself in clothes or wear things like makeup
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1.0
To put clothes on yourself or someone else
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4.0
Put on formal clothes or a uniform for an event
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2.0
To put on different clothes for a certain activity
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2.6
To put on a piece of clothing
Antonyms
How Dressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'get dressed' is a regular compositional change-of-state construction where 'get' conveys becoming/causing a change and 'dress' means to put on clothes; together they directly yield 'put on clothes'. This pattern (get + past participle/adjective) is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English usage, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Get dressed shows the simple picture of someone getting clothes on and becoming dressed, like a parent putting clothes on a child or a person putting on a coat. That's why it means 'to put on clothes'.