MAKING OVER Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

making over

verb

Definition of making over next

present participle of make over

as in transforming

to change in form, appearance, or use the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center

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as in ceding

to give over the legal possession or ownership of made the deed over to his daughter

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expropriating

as in remodeling

to make different in some way just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general

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Recent Examples of making over The touring cast is uniformly up for the exhausting task of making joke after joke after joke while making over-the-top reactions whenever anyone else says a joke. —

Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026 For seasoned cooks and kitchen novices, cookbook author and nutritionist Robin Miller takes it back to basics with great, family-friendly recipes worth making over and over again. —

Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026 Get a degree Even without a college degree, Rivers was doing well in tech, making over $70,000 a year, first at Amazon Web Services and later as a support engineer at a startup. —

Calmatters, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 Nationwide, 77% of those earning less than $50,000 a year got money back, compared to 35% of those making over $200,000. —

Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026 Any player in that group making over $3 million AAV is probably inefficient management procurement. —

Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026 Despite the third one making over $1 billion globally, Cameron is still concerned about whether a fourth film would be approved by Disney. —

Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026 As enforcement budgets have declined, audits of people making over $1 million have fallen more than 80 percent in the last decade. —

Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026 Teen Wolf, released in August 1985, was poorly received by critics, but was a financial success, making over $30 million on its $4 million budget. —

Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025

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The team recently created a storage system that enables information written into DNA to be edited, therefore transforming it from a one-time storage medium into a rewritable digital hard drive.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
Aritzia excels at transforming timeless closet classics into trendy, elevated essentials—much like this effortlessly chic deep V-neck sweater that rings in over $100.

— Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026