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make-up
noun
- cosmetics, such as powder, lipstick, etc, applied to the face to improve its appearance
- the cosmetics, false hair, etc, used by an actor to highlight his features or adapt his appearance
- the art or result of applying such cosmetics
- the manner of arrangement of the parts or qualities of someone or something
- the arrangement of type matter and illustrations on a page or in a book
- mental or physical constitution
verb
- tr to form or constitute
these arguments make up the case for the defence
- tr to devise, construct, or compose, sometimes with the intent to deceive
to make up an excuse
to make up a song
- tr to supply what is lacking or deficient in; complete
these extra people will make up our total
- tr to put in order, arrange, or prepare
to make up a bed
- intrfoll byfor to compensate or atone (for)
his kindness now makes up for his rudeness yesterday
- to settle (differences) amicably (often in the phrase make it up )
- to apply cosmetics to (the face) to enhance one's appearance or so as to alter the appearance for a theatrical role
- to assemble (type and illustrations) into (columns or pages)
- tr to surface (a road) with asphalt, concrete, etc
- tr
- to set in order and balance (accounts)
- to draw up (accounting statements)
- make up one's mindto decide (about something or to do something)
he made up his mind to take vengeance
- make up to informal.
- to make friendly overtures to
- to flirt with
Example Sentences
The recorded version also includes background vocals from the Citizens of the World Choir, which is made up of refugees.
It helped the Trump team make up for Kamala Harris’s mammoth financial advantage and narrow its dollars and focus on the roughly 14 percent of battleground-state voters it had identified as swayable.
ASM Global, which manages the city-owned convention center, subcontracts several staffing agencies whose employees make up the convention center’s workforce, in addition to workers it hires directly.
Black bowls through the movie like the king of the sandbox, the lord of the playground, rallying the rest of us to join him on a quest that he’s made up on the spot.
Jones’ books — chronicling his gang life in Compton, his spiritual journey as a condemned man and recipes doable with a prison-sanctioned electric pot — make up the bulk of the collection.
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