Make-up Definition

make-ups
verb

To constitute; to compose; to form.

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To compensate, fill in or catch up.

He can make up the time next week.
I plan to make up for my failed midterm.
Cuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies.
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To invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.).

He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.
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(cooking) To assemble, or mix.

I can make up a batch of stew in a few minutes, but it will take a two hours to cook.
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To apply cosmetics or makeup.

Let's leave as soon I make up my face.
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noun
make-ups

Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there.

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adjective

Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.

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(informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation.

Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.
We only argue because of the make-up sex.
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Make-up Sentence Examples

  • No matter how sorry Alex was for what happened, or how many times he apologized or tried to make up for it, he couldn't remove the hurt.

  • Prodigies of valour on the part of Bayezid's troops could not make up for the defection of the newly-absorbed levies from Aidin, Sarukhan and Menteshe who went over to their former princes in Timur's camp. The rout of the Turkish army was complete.

  • She picked up two suitcases and nodded to her make-up case.

  • The great object of 17th-century moralists had been to find some general principle from which the whole of ethics could be deduced; common-sense, by turning its back on abstract principles of every kind, forced the philosophers to come down to the solid earth, and start by inquiring how the world does make up its mind in fact.

  • These genera make up the sub-family Anophelinae, and together include over ioo species.

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