# make up

## Anglais

### Étymologie

    Composé de make et de up.

### Locution verbale 1

make up \meɪk ˈʌp\

* (Intransitif) Se réconcilier.
   * I don’t want to fight any more. Let’s kiss and make up.

    Je ne veux plus me battre. Embrassons-nous et réconcilions-nous.
* Construire, établir.
   * There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India. — (Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, Silver and Gold: The Money of the World, 1891, page 70)
* (Transitif) Fabriquer, inventer, fabuler.
   * He made up a lie.

    Il inventa un mensonge.
* (Transitif) Maquiller.
   * She made herself up.

**Apparentés étymologiques**

* make (« faire »)
* makeup (« maquillage »)

### Locution verbale 2

to make up (for)

* Rattraper, se faire pardonner pour, regagner ce qu’on avait perdu.
   * She still has to make up the exam that she missed when it was given.
   * We'll have to make up our low score in the first half, if we're going to win this game.
* Rattraper, se dédommager, compenser.
   * You'll have to make up for the damage that you've caused.
