Keep your scarf on, do your coat up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you do up an old building, you decorate and repair it so that it is in a better condition.
[British]
Nicholas has bought a barn in Provence and is spending August doing it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
[Also VERBPARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb [usually passive]
If you say that a person or room is done up in a particular way, you mean they are dressed or decorated in that way, often a way that is rather ridiculous or extreme.
...Beatrice, usually done up like the fairy on the Christmas tree. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
She's had her blond hair done up exactly like Jackie's. [have n V-ed P]
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do up in British English
verb(adverb; mainly tr)
1.
to wrap and make into a bundle
to do up a parcel
2.
to cause the downfall of (a person)
3.
to beautify or adorn
4. (also intr)
to fasten or be fastened
this skirt does up at the back
5. informal
to renovate or redecorate
6. slang
to assault
do up in American English
1. Informal
to prepare
2.
to wrap up; tie up; fasten
3.
to arrange (the hair) so that it is off the neck and shoulders
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Examples of 'do up' in a sentence
do up
How odd that Maurice can do up a whole house yet not comb his hair.
Richard Francis PROSPECT HILL (2003)
Annie walked away, but not in a hurry, she stopped to do up the six buttons of her coat.
Penelope Fitzgerald HUMAN VOICES (2003)
His hands lifting her against the trunk of the tree, trembling, trying to do up the buttons of her dress, staring at her, white-faced.