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Make Over

Definition: Make Over

Make Over

Verb

1. Use again in altered form; "retread an old plot".

2. Make anew.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Make Over

Synonyms: redo (v), refashion (v), remake (v), retread (v), rework (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Make Over

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Exaggeration

Verb: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify; (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.

Giving

Verb: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.

Transfer

Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Make Over

English words defined with "make over": DisponeFine for alienationRecoct, rendersubmitTo give away, To make away, To work up. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Make Over

DomainTitle

Books

  • Make over Your Man: A Woman's Guide to Dressing Any Man in Her Life (reference)

  • Mrs. Mauldin's Make Over Magic: A Diet of Choice (The Absolutely Last Diet You'll Ever Need!) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Make Over

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

I make over the trust.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Make Over

Expressions using "make over": make over a sum of money to smb. To make over. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Make Over

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

make over

128

game make over

27

make over story

10

extrem make over

4

boring make over room

4

make over story tlc

4

easy eggs make over

3

40 make over up

3

face make over

3

make make over up

3

doll make over

2

50 make over up

2

lunch make over time

2

50 make over up woman

2

game make over virtual

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Make Over

Language Translations for "make over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

luovuttaa (cede, convey, deliver, extradite, give up, hand over, relinquish, resign, surrender, transfer, yield). (various references)

   

German

  

verschreiben (enter, prescribe, transfer, wear down), vermachen (bequeath, bequest, leave, will), umbauen (adapt, alter, build, convert, customize, modify, rebuild, renovate, reorganize, to reconstruct), umarbeiten (alter, recast, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, to make over), umändern (alter, change, modify, rearrange, transform, turn), überschreiben (head, overwrite, overwriting, sign over, to transcribe, transcribe, transmit), übereignen (transfer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεταβιβάζω (communicate, convey, depute, devolve, hand down, impart, pass down, relay, settle on, transfer, transmit), αλλάζω (alter, change, chop, shift, switch, veer). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעשות מח"ש, ל"עביר (carry, communicate, convey, hand, hand down, hand over, lead over, pass, pass on, put across, remove, switch, transfer, transmit, transport). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

átruház (assign, confer, convey, depute, devolve, hand over, quitclaim, to alien, to alienate, to assign, to consign, to demise, to devolve, to make over, to release, to transfer). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

メーカー物 (gauge, Major, Major League, make, make love, make up, makeup, make-up, mate, May Day, Mayday, meter, meter stamp, metre, name-brand item). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

メークオーバー . (various references)

   

Manx

  

screeu harrish, cur seose da (assign). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akemay overay

   

Romanian

  

înmâna cuiva o sumã de bani (make over a sum of money to smb.). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

överlåta (assign, convey, demise, depute, devolve, leave, pass, remise, transfer, transmit, vest). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yenilemek (modernize, rebuild, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, touch up, vamp up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

переробляти (adapt, alter, change, do again, furbish up, readjust, recast, re-do, rehash, remake, remodel, revise, rework, transverse, turn over, work over). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Make Over

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

regenerare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Make Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: makeover.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-m-o-r-v"

-2 letters: evoker, remake, remove, revoke.

-3 letters: ameer, evoke, maker, morae, mover, rakee, ramee, reave, vomer.

-4 letters: aero, akee, amok, arvo, aver, eave, ever, kame, kore, make, mako, mare, mark, meek, mere, merk, moke, mora, more, move, okra, omer, over, rake, rave, ream, reek, roam, rove, veer, vera.

-5 letters: are, ark, arm, ave, avo, ear, eke.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-m-o-r-v"
 

+1 letter: makeovers.

 

+2 letters: moviemaker.

 

+3 letters: moviemakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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