Definition
To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
To redecorate (a room, etc.); to make improvements to (a home or domestic property).
To execute a task or performance.
To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
In Context
- "I can't do up my shirt. The button is missing."
- "Help me do up this zipper."
- "You hold it in place while I do up the nut."
- "I'm going to do up the living room next."
- "They've done up the house so that they can sell it more easily."
- "If I had been asked what was the rent of the house, I should have said, at the most, not more than twenty pounds, — because, between you and me, it wants a good bit of doing up, and is hardly fit to live in as it stands."
- "So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium."
- "This time I'm going to do it up right."
- "I did up the parcel with string and took it to the post office."
Opposite In Meaning
- undo