do up

British  

verb

1. to wrap and make into a bundle

   to do up a parcel

2. to cause the downfall of (a person)

3. to beautify or adorn

4. (also intr) to fasten or be fastened

   this skirt does up at the back

5. informal to renovate or redecorate

6. slang to assault

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do up Idioms  

1. Fasten up or put up; also, dress up. For example, Let's do up all the gifts in matching paper , or Please help me do up the collar button , or Jane did up her hair for the dance , or The children were all done up in their best outfits . [c. 1800]

2. . Do something thoroughly or very well, as in They really did it up brown for the dinner party . The allusion here is unclear, but it may be to wrapping a package in brown paper. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

‘Girls, what are you doing up here?’ he asks, peering across the dark room.

From Literature

I wondered what he was doing up in a tree, screaming his head off.

From Literature

One driver told the BBC his firm would do up to 15 drop-offs daily from a hotel in south-east London to a doctors surgery around two miles away.

From BBC

She’s dressed in fancy shoes and her hair is done up, but she wants to play, so I pass her the ball.

From Literature

She didn’t say it before, so I guess it wasn’t done up until that very moment.

From Los Angeles Times