Idiom Breakdown

make over

English phrasal verbs formed with "over"

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Definition

To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.

(of a person, particularly a woman) To give a new physical look to, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes.

(of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.

To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.

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"We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite."
"Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork […]"
"Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow."
"The senator needs to make over his image."
"As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could."
"Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R."

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