| make up | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent | 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" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (creation) | 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" |
| v. (possession) | 3. compensate, make up, pay, pay off | do or give something to somebody in return.; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" |
| ~ settle | dispose of; make a financial settlement. |
| v. (social) | 4. catch up with, 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?" |
| ~ recuperate, recoup, recover | regain or make up for.; "recuperate one's losses" |
| v. (creation) | 5. cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture | make up something artificial or untrue. |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (change) | 6. make, make up | put in order or neaten.; "make the bed"; "make up a room" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (stative) | 7. compensate, correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up | adjust for.; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (communication) | 8. conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile, settle | come to terms.; "After some discussion we finally made up" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (body) | 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" |
| suck in | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. sop up, suck in, take in, take up | take up as if with a sponge. |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| v. (weather) | 2. suck, suck in | attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc..; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad" |
| ~ take in, absorb | suck or take up or in.; "A black star absorbs all matter" |
| v. (contact) | 3. draw in, suck in | draw in as if by suction.; "suck in your cheeks and stomach" |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| ~ aspirate, suck out, draw out | remove as if by suction.; "aspirate the wound" |
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