Do Up

Definition: Do Up

Do Up

Verb

1. Wrap for decorative purposes; "The gift was done up in pretty red paper".

2. Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; "She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends".

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

Literature

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

Synonyms: Do Up

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Do Up

So what do people do up here, besides wait for an early demise and ask really dumb questions (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun)

Do you know what we do up here? (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "do up": do up the hair ♦ to do up. Additional references.

Albanian

rraskapit (depauperate, do in, exhaust, overdrive, overstrain oneself, Tucker), riparoj (doctor, fix, mend, recondition, refit, rehabilitate, renew, renovate, repair, solder), rinovoj (recondition, refurbish, renovate), restauroj (re establish, reclaim, rehabilitate, renew, restore), paketoj (pack, package, parcel), ndryshoj (alter, amend, change, differ, diversify, inflect, manipulate, metamorphose, recast, reverse, shift, switch, transform, vary), mbërthej (brace, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, corner, enchain, fasten, grip, hold, hook, hook up, make fast, nab, paw, peg, seize, snatch), mbërthehet, lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, splice, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), kopsitet, kopsis, i ndërroj formën. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زرر (button, button up, fasten). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), подреждам (adjust, arrange, assort, compose, dispose, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, sort out, tidy, trim), подновявам (furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, renovate, reopen, reproduce, restore, resume, revamp, take up, vamp). (various references)

Chinese 

修飾 (adorn). (various references)

Czech

zabalit (enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, make up, pack, pack up, package, parcel up, turn in, wrap, wrap up), vyleštit (black, gloss, rub up), vyèerpat (deplete, drain, enervate, exhaust, fatigue, suck up, tire out, use up, wear, work out), upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat, trim), unavit (exhaust, fatigue, tire, wear out, weary), naèesat. (various references)

Danish

reparation (blocking, corrective maintenance, keeping, maintenance, remedial action, repair, repairs, servicing), rensning (brushing, cleaning, conditioning, decontamination, dirt removal, purification, refining, scavenging, scraping, scrubbing, shake, shaking, stripping, winnowing). (various references)

Dutch

opfrissen (refresh). (various references)

Finnish

kunnostaa (adjust, overhaul, put in order, recondition, repair), korjata (amend, correct, fix, harvest, mark, mend, put right, rectify, repair). (various references)

French

se fermer, retaper, rafraîchir, fermer (pull down), boutonner. (various references)

German

zumachen (cap, close, close down, fasten up, get a move on, move, put down, put up, seal, shut, shut down, step on it, to close), reparieren (fix, mend, patch, repair, repairable, to mend, to patch, to repair), renovieren (redecorate, refurbish, renovate, to redecorate, to renovate, upholster), neuherrichten, herrichten (get ready, make, prepare, set, set up, smarten up), aufputzen (adorn, brush up, clean up, deck out, decorate, dress up, ornament, polish up), aufmöbeln (buck up, camp up, cheer up, jazz up, pep up, polish up, recondition, revamp, smarten up, to recondition), aufarbeiten (catch up on, clear, reappraise, recondition, refurbish, work off). (various references)

Greek 

συσκευάζω (pack, wrap), ξαναδένω (to rebind), φρεσκάρω (brush up, freshen, refresh, refurbish), διορθώνω (amend, correct, emend, fix, mend, put right, rectify, refit, repair, to correct, touch up). (various references)

Hungarian

kifáraszt (exhaust, fag, gruel, tire, to distress, to fag, to fatigue, to gruel, to irk, to knock up, to pump out, to rack, to sew up, to tire, to tucker, to wear out, to weary, Tucker), helyreállít (re establish, reconstruct, redress, renovate, restore, to accommodate, to put in repair, to recondition, to recruit, to refit, to renovate, to right, to set sg to rights). (various references)

Italian

rinfrescare (cool, cool down, freshen, refresh, refreshen up, restore). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

結う　 (to braid, to do up hair), 結う (to braid, to do up), 包む (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), 上�'る (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit), 帯�'� める (do up a sash), 帯�'結い上�'る (to do up a sash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おび�'しめる (do up a sash), おび�'ゆいあ�'る (to do up a sash), くるむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), つつむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), あ�'る (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to lift, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit), ゆう (actor, bravery, courage, evening, gentleness, gift, help, heroism, possession, superiority, to braid, to do up, to say). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

restaurar (bring through, freshen, furbish, make up, realign, recondition, reconstruct, recover, redintegrate, re-establish, repair, reproduce, restore, retrieve, rub up), preparar (arrange, coach, confection, do, draw up, finish, fix up, frame, groom, lay, make, mobilize, prepare, process, ready, square up, study, temper, to prepare, train), lavar (bath, buddle, lave, mop, square up, wash), arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, dress, fare, figure out, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim). (various references)

Romanian

reface (change, do over, re establish, rebuild, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, redress, reform, remake, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), încheia (clench, clinch, close, combine, conclude, contract, drive, end, enter, fasten, finish, fix, peg down, perfect, put through, strike), împacheta (bale, encase, pack, package, packet, wrap, wrap up). (various references)

Russian 

ремонтировать (mend, overhaul, recondition, refit, remount, repair), чинить (amend, bushel, cobble, darn, refit, repair, vamp), приводить в порядок (adjust, arrange, brush up, fix, order, put in order, put into shape, rearrange, set in order, square up, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim), подправлять. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakopčati (buckle, button up, clasp, enclasp), urediti (arrange, fix up, iron out, lay, organize, put in order, redact, settle, tidy up), upakovati (pack). (various references)

Spanish

restaurar (bring back, furbish up, refurbish, renovate, restore), renovar (innovate, redecorate, refuel, renew, renovate), liar (attach, bind, bundle, connect, fasten, foul up, join, ligate, link, roll, tie, tie back, tie together, tie up, truss, wrap up), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), abrochar (buckle, button up, clasp, fasten, hook up). (various references)

Swedish

snygga upp (smarten up, tidy up, vamp), slå in (batter, come true, fold up, hammer in, knock in, smash), ruinera (bring low, bring to ruin, ruin, undo), knäppas, knäppa (buckle, button, click, fasten, fillip, flick, flip, knock off, plug, pot, snap, thrum, twang, zap). (various references)

Turkish

yormak (attribute, cream, do in, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), tamir etmek (cobble, debug, fix, mend, recondition, redintegrate, refit, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, service, tinker up), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), paketlemek (enfold, infold, pack, pack up, package, packet, wrap, wrap up), iliklemek (button up, fasten, loop), güzelleştirmek (adorn, beautify, embellish, face-lift, gild, perk up, prettify, pretty up), fermuarını çekmek, bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references)

Ukrainian

лагодити (amend, darn, mend, piece, piece up, refit, repair, revamp, vamp). (various references)

Misspellings

"Do Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: updo.

-1 letter: duo, dup, oud, pod, pud, udo, upo.

-2 letters: do, od, op, up.

+1 letter: pound, proud, updos.

+2 letters: couped, holdup, louped, padouk, podium, poufed, pounds, poured, pouted, pseudo, rouped, souped, unipod, updove, upfold, uphold, upload, uropod.

+3 letters: adipous, apodous, coupled, dropout, duopoly, euploid, expound, grouped, gumdrop, holdups, impound, jodhpur, opaqued, outdrop, outplod, outsped, padouks, pandour, podiums, pouched, pouffed, poulard, pounced, poundal, pounded, pounder, produce, product, prouder, proudly, pseudos, pushrod, putdown, roundup, spoused, spouted, trouped, unhoped, unipods, unposed, unroped, upbound, upfolds, uphoard, upholds, uploads, upstood, uropods.