Synonyms of doing up

doing up

verb

present participle of do up

1

as in decorating

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

the whole house had been done up for Halloween

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decorating
• adorning
• dolling up
• gussying up
• draping
• prettying (up)
• fancying up
• trimming
• glitzing (up)
• dressing
• ornamenting
• enriching
• decking
• embossing
• painting
• tricking (out)
• garnishing
• embellishing
• dressing up
• gracing
• beautifying
• bedizening
• emblazing
• bedecking
• doing
• arraying
• caparisoning
• festooning
• blazoning
• fancifying
• sprucing (up)
• trapping
• brightening
• embroidering
• accessorizing
• freshening
• chasing
• smartening
• hanging
• filigreeing
• filleting
• fringing
• braiding
• figuring
• frilling
• swagging
• feathering
• bossing
• garlanding
• furbelowing
• ribboning
• appliquéing
• flouncing
• wreathing
• gilding
• diamonding
• jeweling
• redecorating
• redoing
• lacing
• gemming
• impearling
• pearling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• simplifying
• spoiling
• displaying
• streamlining
• defacing
• scarring
• disfiguring
• marring
• revealing
• exposing
• stripping
• dismantling
• uncovering
• baring
• blemishing
• denuding
• divesting
• uglifying

2

as in clothing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clothing
• decking (out)
• rigging (out)
• getting up
• dressing
• togging (up or out)
• dressing up
• appareling
• attiring
• costuming
• caparisoning
• gowning
• vesturing
• wrapping
• enrobing
• draping
• toileting
• garbing
• garmenting
• robing
• bedecking
• habiting
• suiting
• arraying
• dressing down
• investing
• habilitating
• enswathing
• furnishing
• mantling
• jacketing
• frocking
• cloaking
• vesting
• outfitting
• swaddling
• equipping
• tailoring
• uniforming
• huddling
• accoutring
• happing
• swathing
• bedighting
• underdressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripping
• undressing
• disrobing
• untrussing
• disarraying
• uncovering
• unveiling
• unclothing
• denuding
• divesting
• undraping

3

as in wearing

to use up all the physical energy of

all of this fussing about the wedding has done me up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wearing
• killing
• exhausting
• tiring
• doing in
• wearing out
• burning out
• knocking out
• washing out
• draining
• busting
• wearing to a frazzle
• tuckering (out)
• harassing
• wearying
• outwearing
• breaking
• wasting
• fatiguing
• fagging
• weakening
• frazzling
• debilitating
• sapping
• enervating
• enfeebling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• strengthening
• activating
• energizing
• invigorating
• resting
• relaxing
• rejuvenating
• vitalizing
• unwinding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doing up

What in the world are those overgrown basketballs doing up there? — Rui Bo, The Conversation, 18 May 2026

Wednesday’s practice started with some of the players doing up-downs after forgetting equipment. — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026

Benioff had revealed over the summer that AI was already doing up to 50% of the work at the company. — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2025

The good news, however, is that even casual fans of their music can enjoy and appreciate what Joseph and Dun are doing up there. — Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025

After all, though TikTok may tell you that everyone is doing up their dorm rooms at the cost of roughly a new car, in reality, the average family spend (according to a RetailMeNot poll) is a much less jaw-dropping $598. — Alex Apatoff, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025