English-Portuguese translations for make up

• compensar
  Façamos mais para compensar agora esse abandono. Let us do more to make up for this now.
  Os EUA necessitam de importar abelhas para compensar as perdas. The US is having to import bees to make up the losses.
  Quando muito, poderá compensar-se uma perda.All that this can do is to make up for a loss.
• fazer as pazes
• inventar
• maquiar
• resolver
  Suspender bons programas não ajuda, infelizmente, a resolver o problema da sua má gestão; pelo contrário, os prejuízos só aumentam. Terminating good programmes unfortunately does not make up for poor programme execution, in fact quite the reverse, for even greater damage is inflicted.

Definition of make up

• To build or complete.
• To assemble, prepare.
• To arrange or advance.

Examples

• He can make up the time next week
• I plan to make up for my failed midterm
• Cuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies
• I can make up a batch of stew in a few minutes, but it will take a few hours to cook
• He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot
• Lets leave as soon as I make up my face
• They fight a lot, but they always manage to make up

Related words

• make up|make up for
• make up for
• make up one's mind
• make up the numbers
• make up for lost time
• make up stories
• make up one’s mind
• make up differences
• kiss and make up