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make up

verb as in comprise, constitute

noun as in architecture

noun as in toilet

noun as in complexion

Strongest matches

Strong matches

noun as in grain

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As of 2013, Jews make up 1.8 to 2.2 percent of the adult U.S. population.

Still, they make up the largest block of holiday shoppers and are the key to retail success or failure.

However, the enormous benefits that low-skilled immigrants provide more than make up for that relatively small cost.

Her make-up includes two tattoo-like designs on both temples.

The smog will return quickly as factories try to double their production to make up for lost time.

So she did ask, though it was a great ordeal to make up her mind to do it; and they gave my mother a thousand francs.

She loved him now; and she had promised to make up for the long grey years of the past by marrying him almost at once.

All these different objects fully make up for whatever amount of dirtiness may occasionally be met with.

All that I can now say is, to desire that Trevithick will make up his mind to return to Cornwall immediately.

But we can hire the old hall, and all the men will be glad to subscribe—a few of us can make up the deficit.

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On this page you'll find 278 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to make-up, such as: composition, construction, style, constitution, formation, and framework.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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