Synonyms of doing up

doing up

verb

present participle of do up

1

as in decorating

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

the whole house had been done up for Halloween

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decorating
• adorning
• dolling up
• gussying up
• draping
• prettying (up)
• fancying up
• trimming
• glitzing (up)
• dressing
• ornamenting
• enriching
• decking
• embossing
• painting
• tricking (out)
• garnishing
• embellishing
• dressing up
• gracing
• beautifying
• bedizening
• emblazing
• bedecking
• doing
• arraying
• caparisoning
• festooning
• blazoning
• fancifying
• sprucing (up)
• trapping
• embroidering
• brightening
• accessorizing
• freshening
• chasing
• smartening
• hanging
• filigreeing
• filleting
• fringing
• braiding
• figuring
• frilling
• swagging
• feathering
• bossing
• garlanding
• furbelowing
• ribboning
• appliquéing
• flouncing
• wreathing
• gilding
• jewelling
• diamonding
• jeweling
• redecorating
• redoing
• lacing
• gemming
• impearling
• pearling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• simplifying
• spoiling
• displaying
• streamlining
• defacing
• scarring
• disfiguring
• marring
• revealing
• exposing
• stripping
• dismantling
• uncovering
• baring
• blemishing
• denuding
• divesting
• uglifying

2

as in clothing

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes

on Wild West Day some of the women came to the office done up as showgirls, while the men were mostly outlaws

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clothing
• decking (out)
• rigging (out)
• getting up
• dressing
• togging (up or out)
• dressing up
• apparelling
• appareling
• attiring
• costuming
• caparisoning
• gowning
• vesturing
• wrapping
• enrobing
• draping
• toileting
• garbing
• garmenting
• robing
• bedecking
• habiting
• suiting
• arraying
• dressing down
• investing
• habilitating
• enswathing
• furnishing
• mantling
• jacketing
• accoutering
• frocking
• cloaking
• vesting
• outfitting
• swaddling
• equipping
• tailoring
• uniforming
• huddling
• accoutring
• swathing
• happing
• bedighting
• underdressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripping
• undressing
• disrobing
• untrussing
• disarraying
• uncovering
• unveiling
• unclothing
• denuding
• divesting
• undraping

3

as in wearing

to use up all the physical energy of

all of this fussing about the wedding has done me up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wearing
• killing
• exhausting
• tiring
• doing in
• wearing out
• burning out
• knocking out
• washing out
• draining
• busting
• wearing to a frazzle
• tuckering (out)
• harassing
• wearying
• outwearing
• breaking
• wasting
• fatiguing
• fagging
• weakening
• frazzling
• debilitating
• sapping
• enervating
• enfeebling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• strengthening
• activating
• energizing
• invigorating
• resting
• relaxing
• rejuvenating
• vitalizing
• unwinding