DOES UP Synonyms: 163 Similar and Opposite Words

does up

verb

present tense third-person singular of do up

as in adorns

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming the whole house had been done up for Halloween

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as in clothes

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

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as in wears

to use up all the physical energy of all of this fussing about the wedding has done me up

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For the past two decades, Caneer has co-chaired an endowed swimming scholarship honoring his former coach, Dick Anderson, whose name also adorns the university’s swimming facility.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026
To be sure, the Russian space agency Roscosmos (like other space agencies) often adorns its rockets with colorful artwork and logos that may not necessarily result in payment.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 17 July 2026

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Regardless, men behaving in a repulsed or shocked way when a man dresses feminine or in women’s clothing is homophobic.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Case in point, the Organic Cotton Relaxed Oxford Shirt, which stylist Nicole Chavez, who dresses Witherspoon, handpicked in her cool-girl summer capsule.

— Olivia Cigliano, InStyle, 20 July 2026

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That patience pays off in the way Extrait wears so richly, albeit noticeably softer and more enveloping than its raw materials read on paper.

— Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026
Violet Spurgeon wears a yellow dress, a rainbow sash, a tiara and a pair of boxing gloves with her name printed across them.

— Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026

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However, Sacramento does in fact have a restaurant that merges these cuisines in an elegant and very personal way.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
Not everyone went slowly insane under such circumstances, as Bartleby does in Melville’s story, but the experience was disorienting all the same.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Definition of does in

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That’s because even ordinary winds – and far worse, storms and earthquakes – cause tall buildings to sway, which ruins people’s concentration, wrecks their mood, and even exhausts them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.

— Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026

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