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make up

English

  1. 🔊 apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
    “She makes herself up every morning”
  2. 🔊 devise or compose
    “This designer makes up our Spring collections”
  3. 🔊 make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
    “I have to make up a French exam”
  4. 🔊 put in order or neaten
    “make the bed”
  5. 🔊 come to terms
    “After some discussion we finally made up”
  6. 🔊 do or give something to somebody in return
    “Does she pay you for the work you are doing?”
  7. 🔊 form or compose
    “This money is my only income”
  8. 🔊 concoct something artificial or untrue
  9. 🔊 adjust for
    “engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 integrar to make up, to compose
  2. 🔊 formar to make up, to constitute
  3. 🔊 sacar de la manga to make up, to come up with
  4. 🔊 representar to make up, constitute, account for

Similar words

make reconcile patch up conciliate settle fabricate manufacture cook up invent pay pay off compensate catch up with constitute represent comprise be compensate counterbalance correct even out even off even up accommodate