"dress down" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From analogy with dress up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dresses down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressed down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressed down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "dress-down day"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "dress-down Friday"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "dress up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 10, Jonathan Mahon-Heap, quoting Hugo, 29, former analyst, “‘One guy brandished a whip’ – bankers on Industry’s rampant sex, drugs and bullying culture”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scold."
      ],
      "id": "en-dress_down-en-verb-JKQYBADy",
      "links": [
        [
          "scold",
          "scold"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To scold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 2 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to scold",
          "word": "dare una strigliata a qualcuno"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 2 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to scold",
          "word": "strigliare un cavallo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 2 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to scold",
          "word": "ge en avhyvling"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "39 60 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wear casual or informal clothes."
      ],
      "id": "en-dress_down-en-verb-fEnfTTv6",
      "links": [
        [
          "wear",
          "wear"
        ],
        [
          "casual",
          "casual"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To wear casual or informal clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 13 70",
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          "_dis": "15 10 75",
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        },
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          "_dis": "32 13 55",
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        {
          "ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:",
          "text": "Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "nautical"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "dress down"
}

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    "English verbs",
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    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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  "etymology_text": "From analogy with dress up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dresses down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressed down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dressed down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dress-down day"
    },
    {
      "word": "dress-down Friday"
    },
    {
      "word": "dress up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2022 October 10, Jonathan Mahon-Heap, quoting Hugo, 29, former analyst, “‘One guy brandished a whip’ – bankers on Industry’s rampant sex, drugs and bullying culture”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scold."
      ],
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        [
          "scold",
          "scold"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To scold."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wear casual or informal clothes."
      ],
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        [
          "wear",
          "wear"
        ],
        [
          "casual",
          "casual"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To wear casual or informal clothes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Nautical"
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        {
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          "text": "Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc."
      ],
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        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ]
      ],
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        "(nautical) To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to scold",
      "word": "dare una strigliata a qualcuno"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to scold",
      "word": "strigliare un cavallo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to scold",
      "word": "ge en avhyvling"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dress down"
}