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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 scoldingplay

  Familiarity information: DRESSING DOWN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRESSING DOWN (noun)


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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