DRESS OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dress out mean? 

• DRESS OUT (verb)
  The verb DRESS OUT has 1 sense:

1. kill and prepare for market or consumption

  Familiarity information: DRESS OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRESS OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kill and prepare for market or consumption

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

dress; dress out

Context example:

dress a turkey

Hypernyms (to "dress out" is one way to...):

cook; fix; make; prepare; ready (prepare for eating by applying heat)

"Dress out" entails doing...:

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Verb group:

dress (put a dressing on)

dress; garnish; trim (decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Then she ran to her little cabin, washed herself quickly, and took her dress out which was silvery as the moon, and put it on; and when she went in, looking like a king’s daughter, the king went up to her, and rejoiced at seeing her again, and when the dance began he danced with her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)