单词 | make up |
释义 | make up (once / 94 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY make up: made up, makes up, making up USAGE EXAMPLESAccording to the district’s policy, the request must go before a committee made up of the student’s principal, librarian, teacher and parent. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) But these do not make up for the lost oil revenues. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) The country was eager to make up lost revenue after international economic sanctions were lifted in the wake of a landmark nuclear deal. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1v form or compose The children made up the chorus Syn|Hypo be, comprise, constitute, represent make constitute the essence of composeform the substance of constitute, form, maketo compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting" range, straddlerange or extend over; occupy a certain area fall into, fall underbe included in or classified as pose, presentintroduce supplementserve as a supplement to chelateform a chelate, in chemistry spread-eaglestretch over addconstitute an addition 2v devise or compose This designer makes up our Spring collections Hyper design create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner 3v make up something artificial or untrue Syn|Hypo|Hyper cook up, fabricate, invent, manufacture mythologise, mythologize construct a myth confabulateunconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory concoct, trump upinvent spinmake up a story vamp, vamp upmake up concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up devise or invent 4v do or give something to somebody in return Syn|Hyper compensate, pay, pay off settle dispose of; make a financial settlement 5v make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point I have to make up a French exam Syn|Hyper catch up with recoup, recover, recuperate regain or make up for 6v put in order or neaten Syn|Hyper make make gather and light the materials for clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up put (things or places) in order 7v adjust for Syn|Hypo|Hyper compensate, correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up carry compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance compensate, cover, overcompensatemake up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize bring into balance or equilibrium 8v come to terms 2After some discussion we finally made up Syn|Hypo|Hyper conciliate, patch up, reconcile, settle appease, propitiate make peace with make peaceend hostilities agree, concord, concur, hold be in accord; be in agreement v apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier Hypo|Hyper highlight apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent lipstickapply lipstick to rougeredden by applying rouge to powderapply powder to talcapply talcum powder to (one's body) groom, neaten care for one's external appearance |
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