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fix up
| Main Entry: |
fix up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare, beautify |
| Synonyms: | deck, dress up, furnish, gussy up, primp, provide, rehabilitate, repair, smarten, spiff, spruce up |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, deface, defile, uglify |
| Main Entry: | adjust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become or make prepared, adapted |
| Synonyms: | acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, alter, arrange, compose, conform, dispose, do as Romans do, doctor*, fiddle with, fine-tune, fit, fix, fix up, get act together, get it together, grin and bear it, habituate, harmonize, make conform, modify, order, quadrate, reconcile, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, settle, suit, swim with the tide, tailor, tailor-make, tune |
| Antonyms: | confuse, derange, disarrange, disorder, disorganize, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adjust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into agreement or to a standard |
| Synonyms: | accord, allocate, arrange, clarify, conclude, conform, coordinate, doctor*, fiddle with, fine-tune, fix up, grade, methodize, modify, organize, reconcile, regulate, settle, sort, standardize, straighten, systematize, tally |
| Antonyms: | confuse, derange, unfit, unsuit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adorn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decorate |
| Synonyms: | array, beautify, bedeck, deck, doll up, dress up, embellish, enhance, enrich, fix up, furbish, garnish, grace, gussy up, ornament, spruce up, trim |
| Antonyms: | damage, deform, hurt, leave plain, mar |
| Main Entry: | arrange |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put in an order |
| Synonyms: | align, array, class, classify, clear the decks, dispose, file, fix up, form, group, line up, methodize, organize, police, police up, position, put in good shape, put in order, put to rights, range, rank, regulate, sort, spruce, spruce up, systematize, tidy, whip into shape |
| Antonyms: | confuse, derange, disarrange, disorder, disorganize, disperse, disturb, mix up, scatter |
| Main Entry: | correct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix, adjust |
| Synonyms: | alter, ameliorate, amend, better, change, clean up, clean up act, cure, debug, do over, doctor*, edit, emend, fiddle with, fix up, get with it, go over, help, improve, launder, make over, make right, make up for, mend, pay dues, pick up, polish, put in order, reclaim, reconstruct, rectify, redress, reform, regulate, remedy, remodel, reorganize, repair, retouch, review, revise, right, scrub, set right, set straight, shape up, straighten out, touch up, turn around, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | blow, blunder, goof, mistake |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | see person socially |
| Synonyms: | associate with, attend, consort with, court, deuce it, escort, fix up, go around together, go around with, go out with, go steady, go together, keep company, make a date, see, step around, take out, woo |
| Main Entry: | decorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add finishing touches, adorn, bedeck, bedizen, brighten, burnish, color, deck, do up, dress out, dress up, enhance, enrich, festoon, finish, fix up, frill, furbish, garnish, gild, grace, gussy up, idealize, illuminate, jazz up, ornament, paint, perfect, prank, renovate, spruce up, trim |
| Main Entry: | doll up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify oneself; dress up |
| Synonyms: | deck out, fix up, gussy up, preen, primp, put on best clothes, smarten up, spiff, spruce up |
| Antonyms: | dress down |
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