The body
Synonyms for dress
Synonyms for dress: groom and apparel. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for dress
Interchangeable with dress in this sense
Audited under dress's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dress carries in that sense.
- groomverb, in the sense "give a neat appearance to"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dress as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- apparelapparel is a noun in the sense "clothing in general"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under dress and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
give a neat appearance to
Dress the horses.
The true synonym
groom
Same sentence, swapped: Groom the horses.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- clip
- decorate
- suit
Where dress turns up in the game
dress is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where dress is the trap
- arrangeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is put, in the sense "arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events", with dress sitting one tile away.
- setverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mark, in the sense "establish as the highest level or best performance", with dress sitting one tile away.
- suitverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is become, in the sense "enhance the appearance of", and dress is one of the three tiles that lose.
- setverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is determine, in the sense "fix conclusively or authoritatively", with dress sitting one tile away.
Play dress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dress reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
Free with ads on iPhone. Synonym Stack Plus removes them: $2.99 a week, $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual plans.
The ring widens as it goes, from the body at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dress carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.