Usually means: Scolding or criticizing someone severely.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word dressing down:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. dressing-down, dressing down: Merriam-Webster
  2. dressing-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dressing-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dressing-down, dressing-down, dressing down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dressing down: Vocabulary.com
  6. dressing-down: Wordnik
  7. dressing-down, dressing down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dressing-down, dressing down: Wiktionary
  9. dressing-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dressing-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dressing-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dressing-down, dressing down: Dictionary.com
  13. Dressing down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. dressing down: Rhymezone
  15. dressing down: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dressing down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. dressing-down, dressing down: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. dressing down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing-down, dressing down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dressing down: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dressing down)

noun:  A sustained rebuke or censure.

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