Color and Dress up

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Color verb - To add to the interest of by including made-up details.

Usage example: he gave a highly colored version of a rather mundane experience

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Dress up and color are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dress up" instead a verb "Color".

Nearby Words: colour, colorful, colored, colorless, coloured

Dress up verb - To put on one's best or formal clothes.

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Color and dress up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Color" instead a verb "Dress up".

Howl later spruces the dress up with magic to make its color brighter and clearer.

Source: Anime / Howl's Moving Castle
The first crossover game, Narikiri Dungeon 2 on the Game Boy Color, had Mel and Dio, an entirely too cute matched set of silver-haired chibis with the ability to dress up as classes or monsters.

Source: Original Generation
On Hogan's Heroes, Kinch was often involved in plots requiring technical/radio work, but since the color of his skin would be a bit noticeable trying to impersonate a WW2 German official, he didn't get as many "dress up" plots as the rest of the cast.

Source: A Day in the Limelight

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