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单词 doing up
释义

do up

verb

did up; done up; doing up; does up

transitive verb

1
: fasten
do up the buttons of a shirt
… an elderly lady with her jacket done up tightly against the wind … Sue Lloyd-Roberts
2
a
: to deck (someone) out : clothe
The waitstaff was done up in western attire.
b
: to furnish (something) with something ornamental : decorate
She always does up the house for the holidays.
3
: to prepare (something) for wear or use (as by cleaning or repairing)
"… I'll make the pies and lady fingers tomorrow and do up my white muslin dress. …" Lucy Maud Montgomery
4
a
: to wrap (something) up
do up a package
b
: to prepare so as to preserve for later use can entry 2, put up
I did up a bushel of tomatoes.
5
: exhaust, wear out
This contact with righteousness has about done me up! Sinclair Lewis

Synonyms

  • adorn
  • array
  • beautify
  • bedeck
  • bedizen
  • blazon
  • caparison
  • deck
  • decorate
  • do
  • doll up
  • drape
  • dress
  • embellish
  • emblaze
  • emboss
  • enrich
  • fancify
  • fancy up
  • festoon
  • garnish
  • glitz (up)
  • grace
  • gussy up
  • ornament
  • pretty (up)
  • trim
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Example Sentences

the whole house had been done up for Halloween on Wild West Day some of the women came to the office done up as showgirls, while the men were mostly outlaws

Word History

First Known Use

1666, in the meaning defined at sense 3

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • displaying
  • simplifying
  • streamlining
  • spoiling
  • scarring
  • defacing
  • exposing
  • disfiguring
  • marring
  • dismantling
  • revealing
  • stripping
  • baring
  • uncovering
  • denuding
  • blemishing
  • divesting
  • uglifying
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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
  • getting up
  • dressing
  • dressing up
  • decking (out)
  • rigging (out)
  • appareling
  • togging (up or out)
  • attiring
  • costuming
  • apparelling
  • vesturing
  • enrobing
  • gowning
  • wrapping
  • toileting
  • draping
  • garmenting
  • caparisoning
  • robing
  • garbing
  • bedecking
  • habiting
  • suiting
  • arraying
  • dressing down
  • investing
  • habilitating
  • jacketing
  • furnishing
  • frocking
  • mantling
  • vesting
  • cloaking
  • outfitting
  • enswathing
  • equipping
  • swaddling
  • tailoring
  • uniforming
  • huddling
  • accoutering
  • happing
  • bedighting
  • swathing
  • accoutring
  • underdressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • stripping
  • untrussing
  • disarraying
  • undressing
  • disrobing
  • uncovering
  • unveiling
  • unclothing
  • denuding
  • undraping
  • divesting
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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
  • doing in
  • tiring
  • wearing out
  • burning out
  • draining
  • knocking out
  • washing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • tuckering (out)
  • wasting
  • wearying
  • harassing
  • breaking
  • outwearing
  • busting
  • fatiguing
  • fagging
  • weakening
  • frazzling
  • debilitating
  • sapping
  • enervating
  • enfeebling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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