overdressing

verb

present participle of overdress
as in clothing

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  1. clothing
  2. tricking
  3. dressing
  4. rigging
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  • His work finds a means of using technology, engineering, and performance to ask what a garment might be capable of beyond simply clothing the body.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Not feeding the hungry, not tending to the sick, not clothing the naked, not welcoming the refugee.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of clothing
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  • RatHat relies heavily on tricking someone into installing a malicious Android app and approving powerful permissions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Wardle found that a simple variation of ClickFix attack—a technique that has become remarkably effective in tricking people into infecting their devices—is all that’s required for an attacker to take control of a Muse account.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of tricking
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  • Read on to see how 14 Vogue editors tackle black-tie wedding guest dressing to get started.
    — Fred Sahai, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Etiquette writers told women in the 1920s to instruct female guests to de-layer in dressing rooms, typically on the second level.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of dressing
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  • Cinelease, founded in 1977, has since bolted on rigging firm C&C Studio Services as well as barricade firm West Coast Fencing to build out its own services unit.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2026
  • There are already signs that the scandal could go much deeper than rigging the salary cap and arranging no-show endorsement deals.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of rigging
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