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'makeup' - used as a noun
1. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
2. an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
he missed the test and had to take a makeup
the two teams played a makeup one week later
3. the way in which someone or something is composed
4. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance

'makeup' - used as a verb
5. form or compose
The children made up the chorus
6. devise or compose
This designer makes up our Spring collections
7. do or give something to somebody in return
8. make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
I have to make up a French exam
9. make up something artificial or untrue
10. put in order or neaten
make up a room
11. adjust for
12. come to terms
After some discussion we finally made up
13. apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
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