do up

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

Idioms and Phrases

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]

. 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]

Example Sentences

Everything he had been doing up to that point had a song in it.

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Katz said that Mono Lake “needs to be vibrant” and that the city has “an obligation to help undo some of the damage we did up there.”

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And if AI doesn’t have a huge impact, what are all those AI stocks doing up in the stock market stratosphere?

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In outline, her plan would work like this: the government gives a council or housing association an average of £80,000 to buy and do up a property.

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“I can ask, ‘Can you tell me when I won’t be able to do up the buttons on my shirt or operate a phone?’” he says.

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