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as in decorating
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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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
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as in wearing
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 doing up
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.
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Alex Apatoff, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Alex Apatoff, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doing up
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Host of the dinner, Lauren Santo Domingo, also went strapless in a minimalist column by The Row with a fin of seam allowance decorating the back.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Marta and her friends, twelve women, had spent Saturday night decorating it.—
Mariana Enriquez
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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Williams was remembered for wearing goggles and a knee wrap and by his intensity during those games.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Oct. 2025
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Beckham, wearing Saint Laurent peep-toe heels, a white T-shirt and check pencil skirt from her own collection, sits in a big, sunny room filled with racks of clothing and accessories samples, all the elements of her current world.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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Although a ladder is needed for adorning the tree with ornaments, the tree is pre-lit, so that tangled strands of lights are a thing of Christmas past.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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Thug has managed to find a way to push the envelope all these years later with Uy Scuti, adorning a Druski-esque whiteface that reads as a somewhat subversive take on the current moment’s politics.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
26 Sep. 2025
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Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The emergency services Loeb was hearing were headed to the nearby Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, where an assailant rammed a car into people before stabbing several members of the community, killing two.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Specifically for Social Security, projections indicate that the retirement trust fund will be depleted in late 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausting their reserves by 2034.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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So Much Fun) and others exhausting (the YSL Slime Language comps, 2023’s Business Is Business), as well as too many studio leaks unleashed via message board accounts.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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The scenic village, which has a population of approximately 780 people, was getting up to 10,000 tourists a day, according to a report from The Guardian.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Fellow wide receivers Chris Marshall and Cam Bates came over to celebrate with Brown before realizing he was still hunched over the ball and showed no signs of getting up.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
2 Oct. 2025
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So people shouldn’t swim against the current, which puts them at risk of tiring out.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
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There is a little bit of Italian history embedded in the collection, as draping is informed by Dante Alighieri’s tunics seen in portraits of him.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
23 Sep. 2025
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The webs multiply, draping across sidewalks, stretching across paths in the woods, appearing in every corner of our porches, and popping up near ceilings all over town.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Doing up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doing%20up. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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