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make over (third-person singular simple presentmakes over,present participlemaking over,simple past and past participlemade over)

(idiomatic) Torenovate or toconvert to a differentuse, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.
We're going tomake over the garage into a guest suite.
- 2006,Prevention, volume58, number12, page142:
  Ourmade-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork[…]
(idiomatic) (of a person, particularly a woman) To give a newphysical look to, especially with a newhairstyle,cosmetics, orclothes.
Cindy is going tomake over Karen tomorrow.
(idiomatic) (of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.
The senator needs tomake over his image.
(idiomatic) Totransferownership (orcare) of, especially by means of alegaldocument.
- 1915,G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, inGossamer, New York, N.Y.:George H. Doran Company,→OCLC:
  As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladlymake mineover to him if I could.
- 1962 April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, inModern Railways, page257:
  Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it ismade over to the N.E.R.
(slang, African-American Vernacular, dated) To praise (someone) excessively.