VERB
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wrap for decorative purposes
The gift was done up in pretty red paper -
use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.
She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends
How To Use do up In A Sentence
- SEGUI: Tell me what your thoughts were when you saw the tornado, what you call a tornado up on the horizon. CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008
- Then bold Siegfried changed his voice and spake: “I am a knight; do up the door, else will I enrage many a one outside today, who would liefer lie soft and take his ease.” The Nibelungenlied
- We also used to dout (do out, ie, put out) candles, and dup (do up, ie, lift) door latches. Times, Sunday Times
- Do you know how to fasten/do up your seat belt?
- Do up brown came to mean, however, ` to do anything thoroughly, 'and it thus may be the origin of the phrase browned-off, meaning ` thoroughly disgruntled.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
- I think you forgot to do up a button on your shirt. The Sun
- Can you help me to do up my dress?
- She came in nights and mornings when Father was so bad to do up the work and wouldn't take any pay for it. Archive 2009-01-01
- ‘What we've had to do up to now is overprice things at the beginning, to compensate for underpricing at the end of the season,’ he explains.
- We also used to dout (do out, ie, put out) candles, and dup (do up, ie, lift) door latches. Times, Sunday Times
