dress down

2 definitions found

dress down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dress down
      v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
           for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
           Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for
           bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task
           , rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture,
           reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
           chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out,
           chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
      2: dress informally and casually; "On Fridays, employees can
         underdress" [syn: dress down, underdress] [ant: attire,
         deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out,
         fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig   out
         , tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up]

dress down - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "dress down":
     call down, come down on, flax, give a dressing-down, give it to,
     hide, jump all over, jump on, larrup, lather, leather, lick,
     paddle, speak to, talk to, tan, tell off, trim, wallop, welt,
     whale