does up

verb

present tense third-person singular of do up
1
as in adorns
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming the whole house had been done up for Halloween

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2
as in clothes
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes on Wild West Day some of the women came to the office done up as showgirls, while the men were mostly outlaws

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3
as in wears
to use up all the physical energy of all of this fussing about the wedding has done me up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for does up
  1. adorns
  2. dresses
  3. wears
  4. decorates
  5. dresses up
  6. kills
  7. does in
  8. exhausts
Verb
  • His name, Harold Thune, now adorns the high school auditorium.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Reflecting on his career as a whole, Domingo says he is often guided by advice from prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, part of which adorns his left arm as a tattoo.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of adorns
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  • There has remained an overarching philosophy to the way West dresses the Dune universe.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The right pick comes down to how the recipient already dresses and which specific features each jacket actually offers.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of dresses
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  • Linda Noskova wears Missoni shorts and a jacket and white leather trench by The Frankie Shop; Miista boots.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The Puch wears race-spec WP suspension forks sourced from a 1993 Aprilia RS 125 R Grand Prix racer, along with a single-sided swingarm from the same machine.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of wears
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  • The pattern decorates four styles, with materials and sparkling embellishment coming together in a play of reflections.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • In an Upper East Side townhouse, a woman decorates a Christmas tree only to discover a Tiffany Blue Box marked with a date of December 1992.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of decorates
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  • The eye-catching hem instantly dresses up a pair of basic blue jeans, especially when styled with a blouse or sweater.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In the dark comedy Bad Santa, Thornton plays Willie, a miserable, heavy-drinking con man who dresses up as Santa with his elf sidekick (Tony Cox) to rob department stores on Christmas Eve.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of dresses up
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  • Selena is offended, and splashes him with the liquid, which burns and kills him.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, kills more than 8,000 Americans a year and in Connecticut, nearly 900 people will be diagnosed each year.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of kills
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  • This embryonic naval force could be developed further to cover more ambitious contingencies in the Black Sea, from sea surveillance to the protection of territorial integrity, as the Finnish-Swedish naval task force does in the Baltic Sea.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The machine learning model does in a fraction of a second what took the original models days, predicting sea-level change with similar accuracy.
    — Robert Kopp, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of does in
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  • That pretty much exhausts the points of agreement between the pro- and anti-Proposition 40 camps.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of occupying both sides with large cooling vents, air enters toward the front of the station and exhausts through the rear.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of exhausts
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