MAKE OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make over mean? 

• MAKE OVER (verb)
  The verb MAKE OVER has 2 senses:

1. use again in altered form

2. make new

  Familiarity information: MAKE OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use again in altered form

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

make over; retread; rework

Context example:

retread an old plot

Hypernyms (to "make over" is one way to...):

process; work; work on (shape, form, or improve a material)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make new

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

make over; redo; refashion; remake

Context example:

She is remaking her image

Hypernyms (to "make over" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make over"):

recast; reforge; remodel (cast or model anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

makeover (a complete reconstruction and renovation of something)

makeover (an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance)

 Context examples 

He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A thousand a-year is a great deal for a mother to give away, to make over for ever; but Mrs. Ferrars has a noble spirit.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They seize him and use violence towards him in order to make him sign some papers to make over the girl’s fortune—of which he may be trustee—to them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His kindness in stepping forward to her relief, the manner, the silence in which it had passed, the little particulars of the circumstance, with the conviction soon forced on her by the noise he was studiously making with the child, that he meant to avoid hearing her thanks, and rather sought to testify that her conversation was the last of his wants, produced such a confusion of varying, but very painful agitation, as she could not recover from, till enabled by the entrance of Mary and the Miss Musgroves to make over her little patient to their cares, and leave the room.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)