makeup (n.)

  1. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance

    [ Syn: make-up , war paint ]

  2. an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event; he missed the test and had to take a makeup; the two teams played a makeup one week later

    [ Syn: make-up ]

  3. the way in which someone or something is composed

    [ Syn: constitution , composition , physical composition , make-up ]

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