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English verb: make up | |||
| 1. | make up (stative) form or compose | ||
| Samples | This money is my only income. The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance. These constitute my entire belonging. The children made up the chorus. This sum represents my entire income for a year. These few men comprise his entire army. | ||
| Synonyms | be, comprise, constitute, represent | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | compose, constitute, fall into, fall under, form, make, make, pose, present, range, straddle, supplement | ||
| 2. | make up (creation) devise or compose | ||
| Samples | This designer makes up our Spring collections. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | design | ||
| 3. | make up (possession) do or give something to somebody in return | ||
| Samples | Does she pay you for the work you are doing?. | ||
| Synonyms | compensate, pay, pay off | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | settle | ||
| 4. | make up (social) make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point | ||
| Samples | I have to make up a French exam. Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?. | ||
| Synonyms | catch up with | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | recoup, recover, recuperate | ||
| 5. | make up (creation) make up something artificial or untrue | ||
| Synonyms | cook up, fabricate, invent, manufacture | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | concoct, confabulate, mythologise, mythologize, spin, trump up, vamp, vamp up | ||
| 6. | make up (change) put in order or neaten | ||
| Samples | Make the bed. Make up a room. | ||
| Synonyms | make | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up | ||
| Verb group | make | ||
| 7. | make up (stative) adjust for | ||
| Samples | Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance. | ||
| Synonyms | compensate, correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | carry, compensate, cover, overcompensate | ||
| 8. | make up (communication) come to terms | ||
| Samples | After some discussion we finally made up. | ||
| Synonyms | conciliate, patch up, reconcile, settle | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agree, concord, concur, hold | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | appease, make peace, propitiate | ||
| 9. | make up (body) apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier | ||
| Samples | She makes herself up every morning. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | groom, neaten | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | highlight, lipstick, powder, rouge | ||
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