make up

make  (mk)

v. made (md), mak·ing, makes

v.tr.

1. To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create: made problems for us; making a commotion.

2. To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct: make a dress; made a stone wall.

3. To form by assembling individuals or constituents: make a quorum.

4. To change from one form or function to another: make clay into bricks.

5.

a. To cause to be or become: made her position clear; a decision that made him happy.

b. To cause to assume a specified function or role: made her treasurer; made Austin his home.

6.

a. To cause to act in a specified manner: Heat makes gases expand.

b. To compel: made him quit.

7.

a. To form in the mind: make an estimate.

b. To compose: make verses.

8.

a. To prepare; fix: make dinner.

b. To get ready or set in order for use: made the bed.

c. To gather and light the materials for (a fire).

9.

a. To engage in: make war.

b. To carry out; perform: make a phone call; make an incision.

10. To achieve, produce, or attain: made peace between the two sides; not making sense; didn't make the quota.

11.

a. To institute or establish; enact: make laws.

b. To draw up and execute in a suitable form: make a will.

c. To arrange or agree to: make a date.

12.

a. To arrive at; reach: made Seattle in two hours.

b. To reach in time: just made the plane.

13.

a. To attain the rank or position of: made lieutenant.

b. To acquire a place in or on: made the baseball team; made the newspapers.

14.

a. To gain or earn, as by working: make money.

b. To behave so as to acquire: make friends.

c. To score or achieve, as in a sport: made a field goal.

15.

a. To assure the success of: Favorable reviews can make a play.

b. To favor the development of: Practice makes a winning team.

16. To be suited for: Oak makes strong furniture.

17. To develop into: will make a fine doctor.

18.

a. To draw a conclusion as to the significance or nature of: don't know what to make of the decision.

b. To calculate as being; estimate: I make the height 20 feet.

c. To consider as being: wasn't the problem some people made it.

19.

a. To constitute: Ten members make a quorum.

b. To add up to: Two and two make four.

c. To amount to: makes no difference.

20. To cover (a distance): made 200 miles before sunset

21. To constitute the essence or nature of: Clothes make the man.

22. To cause to be especially enjoyable or rewarding: You made my day.

23. To appear to begin (an action): She made to leave.

24. Slang To persuade to have sexual intercourse.

v.intr.

1. To act or behave in a specified manner: make merry; make free.

2. To begin or appear to begin an action: made as if to shake my hand.

3. To cause something to be as specified: make ready; make sure.

4. To proceed in a certain direction: made for home; made after the thief.

5. Slang To pretend to be; imitate. Used with like: made like a ballerina.

6. To undergo fabrication or manufacture: This wool makes up into a warm shawl.

7. To rise or accumulate: The tide is making.

n.

1. The act or process of making; manufacturing.

2. The style or manner in which a thing is made: disliked the make of my coat.

3. The amount produced, especially the output of a factory.

4. A specific line of manufactured goods, identified by the manufacturer's name or the registered trademark: a famous make of shirt.

5. The physical or moral nature of a person; character or disposition: found out what make of man he was.

6. Slang Identification of a person or thing, often from information in police records: Did you get a make on the thief?

Phrasal Verbs:

make for

1. To have or produce (a particular effect or result): small details that make for comfort.

2. To help promote; further: makes for better communication.

make off

To depart in haste; run away.

make out

1. To discern or see, especially with difficulty: I could barely make out the traffic signs through the rain.

2. To understand: could not make out what she said.

3. To write out; draw up: made out the invoices.

4. To fill in (a form, for example).

5. Informal To represent as being: made me out to be a liar.

6. Informal To try to establish or prove: He made out that he was innocent.

7. To get along in a given way; fare: made out well in business.

8. Slang

a. To neck; pet.

b. To have sexual intercourse.

make over

1. To redo; renovate.

2. To change or transfer the ownership of, usually by means of a legal document: made over the property to her son.

make up

1. To put together; construct or compose: make up a prescription.

2. To constitute; form: Ten years make up a decade.

3.

a. To alter one's appearance for a role on the stage, as with a costume and cosmetics.

b. To apply cosmetics.

4. To devise as a fiction or falsehood; invent: made up an excuse.

5.

a. To make good (a deficit or lack): made up the difference in the bill.

b. To compensate for: make up for lost time.

6. To resolve a quarrel: kissed and made up.

7. To make ingratiating or fawning overtures. Used with to: made up to his friend's boss.

8. To take (an examination or course) again or at a later time because of previous absence or failure.

9. To set in order: make up a room.

10. Printing To select and arrange material for: made up the front page.

make with Slang

1. To bring into use: a flirt making with the eyes.

2. To put forth; produce: always making with the jokes.

Idioms:

make a clean breast of

To confess fully.

make a face

To distort the features of the face; grimace.

make a go of

To achieve success in: have made a go of the business.

make away with

1. To carry off; steal.

2. To use up or consume.

3. To kill or destroy.

make believe

To pretend.

make bold

To venture: I will not make so bold as to criticize such a scholar.

make book

To accept bets on a race, game, or contest.

make do

To manage to get along with the means available: had to make do on less income.

make ends meet

To manage so that one's means are sufficient for one's needs.

make eyes

To ogle.

make fun of

To mock; ridicule.

make good

1. To carry out successfully: made good his escape.

2. To fulfill: made good her promise.

3. To make compensation for; make up for: made good the loss.

4. To succeed: made good as a writer.

make hay

To turn to one's advantage: The candidate's opponents made hay of the scandal.

make heads or tails of

To understand: I couldn't make heads or tails of the report.

make history

To do something memorable or spectacular enough to influence the course of history: The first space flight made history.

make it

1. Informal To achieve a goal; be successful. finally made it as an actor.

2. Slang To have sexual intercourse.

make light of

To treat as unimportant: He made light of his illness.

make love

1. To engage in amorous caressing.

2. To engage in sexual intercourse.

make much of

To treat as of great importance.

make no bones about

To be forthright and candid about; acknowledge freely: They make no bones about their dislike for each other.

make off with

To snatch or steal: made off with the profits.

make (one's) day

To give one great pleasure.

make (one's) peace with

To bring oneself to accept; reconcile oneself to.

make (one's) way

1. To go forward; advance.

2. To succeed, especially in making a living.

make sail

1. To begin a voyage.

2. To set sail.

make sense

1. To be coherent or intelligible: an explanation that made sense.

2. To be practical or advisable: It makes sense to go now.

make something of

To start a fight or quarrel over.

make the grade

To measure up to a given standard.

make the most of

To use to the greatest advantage.

make the scene Slang

1. To put in an appearance: made the scene at the party.

2. To participate in a specified activity: made the drug scene.

make time

1. To travel speedily.

2. To travel at a specified rate: We made good time getting to town.

3. Slang To make progress toward attracting someone: tried to make time with the new neighbor.

make tracks Slang

To move or leave in a hurry.

make up (one's) mind

To decide between alternatives; come to a definite decision or opinion.

make waves Slang

To cause a disturbance or controversy.

make way

1. To give room for passage; move aside.

2. To make progress.

on the make Slang

1. Aggressively striving for financial or social improvement: a young executive on the make.

2. Eagerly seeking a sexual partner.

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[Middle English maken, from Old English macian; see mag- in Indo-European roots.]

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maka·ble, makea·ble adj.

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	make up - form or compose; "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" constitute, comprise, be, represent make - constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man" compose - form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality" form, constitute, make - to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" straddle, range - range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state" fall into, fall under - be included in or classified as; "This falls under the rubric 'various'" pose, present - introduce; "This poses an interesting question" supplement - serve as a supplement to; "Vitamins supplemented his meager diet"
	2.	make up - devise or compose; "This designer makes up our Spring collections" design - create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"
	3.	make up - do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" pay off, compensate, pay settle - dispose of; make a financial settlement
	4.	make up - make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point; "I have to make up a French exam"; "Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?" catch up with recuperate, recoup, recover - regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
	5.	make up - make up something artificial or untrue cook up, fabricate, invent, manufacture dream up, think up, hatch, concoct, think of - devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" mythologise, mythologize - construct a myth; "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons" confabulate - unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory trump up, concoct - invent; "trump up charges" spin - make up a story; "spin a yarn" vamp, vamp up - make up; "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting"
	6.	make up - put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room" make clean up, neaten, square away, tidy, tidy up, straighten, straighten out - put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" make - gather and light the materials for; "make a fire"
	7.	make up - adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, compensate, correct carry - compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time" overcompensate, compensate, cover - make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father" balance, equilibrise, equilibrize, equilibrate - bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights"
	8.	make up - come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" conciliate, patch up, reconcile, settle propitiate, appease - make peace with agree, concur, concord, hold - be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" make peace - end hostilities; "The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace"
	9.	make up - apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier; "She makes herself up every morning" neaten, groom - care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed" highlight - apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent; "highlight the area above your eyebrows" lipstick - apply lipstick to; "She lipsticked her mouth" rouge - redden by applying rouge to; "she rouged her cheeks" powder - apply powder to; "She powdered her nose"; "The King wears a powdered wig"

Translations

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