Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To make pretty.

    Company will be here soon, so I'm going to go now and pretty up.

More definitions
  • use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.

Examples

32 sentences

  1. We pretty much gave up hope.

    deWir haben die Hoffnung so ziemlich aufgegeben.

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  2. Tom is still pretty shook up.

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  3. Tom is pretty beat up.

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  4. We're pretty booked up.

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  5. Everyone's pretty shaken up.

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Forms

pretties up, prettying up, prettied up, prettied up
Base formpretty up · to pretty up
3rd person singularpretties up
Present participleprettying up
Past simpleprettied up
Past participleprettied up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypretty up
he, she, itpretties up

Past simpleLesson

all personsprettied up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave prettied up
he, she, ithas prettied up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pretty up

Synonyms

4 synonyms
prettify
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
prettyA1pretzelprevailB2prevalence
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