re-dress

[ ree-dres ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

re-dress

/ riːˈdrɛs /

First recorded in 1730–40; re- + dress

Miss Fancy had apparently to re-dress herself, judging from the length of her absence.

With that he hastily slipped on a scanty covering of clothes and set to work to re-dress Tom's wounds.

We have to re-dress the septic things with H2O2, which keeps them going till they can be specially treated at the base.

(b) When the following vowel is an accented syllable; o-blige, re-dress.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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