to make up
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2.7
- phrasal verb
- /meɪk ʌp/
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reconciliarse
- What do you say we go get something to drink, make up and be friends?
What would it take for you and Meghan Markle to make up?
- What would it take for you and Meghan Markle to make up?
- We've got friends that kind of need that they they have big battles and flames and then and then they make up and it's all fine.
- Obviously we kiss and made-up last week, but now I think we're all ready for like a proper laugh.
- People may even blame you if you get into a cycle of breaking up and making up, which is to be expected in any trauma bonded relationship.
- And that is there's a lot of incentive to kiss and make up with China and partner around this stuff.
- Does that suggest that there's some time and attention that everyone needs to spend kind of breaking up and making up and learning those lessons?
- And we actually sort of made-up the day after the day after.
Examples
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I'm trying to make up with you.
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But Nina, Henderson implored, if we don't make up, what else can we do?
Fiction book (1995) -
- Are you gonna make up?
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Wire me 75 grand and maybe we can kiss and make up.
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Why can't you two just kiss and make up?
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Don't you think it's time we made up?
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So, what do you say, Josey, you wanna, I don't know... kiss and make up?
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She doesn't know how to make up, but I swear it's going to turn out OK.
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-Let's make up.
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After their argument, they decided to make up and restore their friendship.
Synonyms
38
5.1
To become friendly again after a disagreement
25
3.5
Make a relationship better after an argument or disagreement
12
3.4
To become friendly again after an argument
12
3.7
Make peace with someone after an argument
To become friends again after time apart
Antonyms
How Reconciled
Surface Forms
Morphology
make + up
The meaning 'to form or constitute; to combine together as parts to create a whole' is directly derivable from 'make' (to create or assemble) combined with the particle 'up', which commonly adds a sense of completion or togetherness. This verb+particle compositional pattern is regular in English and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would reasonably infer this sense.
Etymology
Make up comes from the image of make a broken friendship up again, like fixing a broken thing so it is whole, so it means 'to become friends again'.