Dictionary entry details
• MAKE UP (verb)
Meaning:
Form or compose
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
constitute; make up; comprise; represent; be
Context examples:
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
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
supplement (serve as a supplement to)
pose; present (introduce)
fall into; fall under (be included in or classified as)
range; straddle (range or extend over; occupy a certain area)
constitute; form; make (to compose or represent:)
compose (form the substance of)
make (constitute the essence of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Devise or compose
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
This designer makes up our Spring collections
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
design (create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Do or give something to somebody in return
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
pay; make up; pay off; compensate
Context example:
Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Meaning:
Make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
catch up with; make up
Context examples:
I have to make up a French exam / Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
recoup; recover; recuperate (regain or make up for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make up something artificial or untrue
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
cook up; fabricate; invent; manufacture; make up
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
vamp; vamp up (make up)
spin (make up a story)
concoct; trump up (invent)
confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)
mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Put in order or neaten
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
make up; make
Context examples:
make the bed / make up a room
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up (put (things or places) in order)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Adjust for
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
compensate; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; correct; make up
Context example:
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
carry (compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance)
compensate; cover; overcompensate (make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Come to terms
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
conciliate; patch up; reconcile; settle; make up
Context example:
After some discussion we finally made up
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
appease; propitiate (make peace with)
make peace (end hostilities)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
She makes herself up every morning
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
highlight (apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent)
lipstick (apply lipstick to)
rouge (redden by applying rouge to)
powder (apply powder to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
