Synonyms of the word corset


CORSETAPPAREL - CLOTHE - DRESS - ENCLOTHE - FOUNDATION - GARB - GARMENT - GIRDLE - HABILITATE - RAIMENT - STAYS - TOG

corset

  • n. A woman's foundation garment, reinforced with stays, that supports the waistline, hips and bust.
  • n. (historical) A tight-fitting gown or basque worn by both men and women during the Middle Ages.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose in a corset; to wear a corset.
  • v. (figuratively) To restrict or confine.

apparel

  • n. Clothing.
  • n. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
  • n. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
  • v. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
  • v. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental.

clothe

  • v. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  • v. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

enclothe

  • v. (transitive) To cover with clothing.

foundation

  • n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
  • n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the…
  • n. (figuratively) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise…
  • n. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build,…
  • n. (architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing…
  • n. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund;…
  • n. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
  • n. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and…
  • n. A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.

garb

  • n. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • n. A type of dress or clothing.
  • n. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.
  • v. (transitive) To dress in garb.
  • n. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
  • n. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

garment

  • n. A single item of clothing.

girdle

  • n. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
  • n. A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually…
  • n. The zodiac; also, the equator.
  • n. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
  • n. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  • n. The clitellum of an earthworm.
  • n. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
  • v. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
  • v. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

habilitate

  • adj. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
  • v. European institutions of higher education: To qualify as an instructor or professor. Usually associated…

raiment

  • n. (archaic or literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.

stays

  • n. plural of stay.
  • n. (plural only) A corset.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stay.

tog

  • n. A cloak.
  • n. A coat.
  • n. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces…
  • v. (transitive) To dress (often with up or out).
  • adv. (knitting) Abbreviation of together.

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