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make over

vb. 1 (label en idiomatic) To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them. 2 (label en idiomatic) (of a person, particularly a woman) To create a new physical look, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes. 3 (label en idiomatic) (of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon and/or take in a new direction. 4 (label en idiomatic) To transfer ownership, especially by means of a legal document.

WordNet
make over
  1. v. use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn: rework, retread]

  2. make new; "She is remaking her image" [syn: remake, refashion, redo]

Usage examples of "make over".

Papal neutrality is a bit of a help but we managed without it before and no doubt we will again, and the political hay Wilhelm is going to make over it makes no odds either.

I make over to you thus my estates of Bardelys, because, monsieur, I have come to realize that that wager was an infamous one - one in which a gentleman should have had no part - and the only atonement I can make to myself, my honour, and the lady whom we insulted - is that.

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust--but one can't make over society.

When all was known to the King he delivered them to one of his captains, and commanded to make over the bodies of the dead to another captain, and gave orders that the bodies should be burned.

They haggled like any pair of traders out of Jewry, but in the end it was settled - by a bond duly engrossed and sealed - that on the day that Sir Rowland married Ruth he should make over to her brother certain values that amounted to perhaps a quarter of her possessions.

She confided her intention to Clara, who was quite willing to make over any number of dresses and hats to Heidi.

Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them.

He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.

I will advance you L2,000, and you can make over to me your pension for your life.

Saying this, he stroked my hair, his fingers all sticky with blood while I thought of those snuffling noises he used to make over the bodies, and how wrong I'd been yet again.

Richard or his beautiful cousin, or both, could sign something, or make over something, or give some sort of undertaking, or pledge, or bond?