make over
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.78 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.
verb
(of a person, particularly a woman) To give a new physical look to, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes.
verb
(of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.
verb
To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.
Example Sentences
- "We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite."
- "Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork […]"
- "Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow."
- "The senator needs to make over his image."
- "As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could."
- "Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R."