dressing

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ˈdrɛsɪŋ/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

Singular dressing

Plural dressings

1. (medicine) Something put on a wound to protect it.
2. Dressing is a sauce that is put on salads or other foods.
3. A bread-based food that is put on or around a turkey.
4. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
5. The activity of getting dressed.

   He liked dressing up in fancy costumes.

• 
  Dressing on an injured foot (sense 1)
• 
  Salad dressing (sense 2)

Verb

Plain form dress

Third-person singular dresses

Past tense dressed

Past participle dressed

Present participle dressing

1. The present participle of dress.