MAKING OVER Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

making over

verb

present participle of make over

as in transforming

to change in form, appearance, or use the old factory was completely made over and is now an upscale shopping center

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as in ceding

to give over the legal possession or ownership of made the deed over to his daughter

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expropriating

as in remodeling

to make different in some way just got up one day and decided to make over her hairstyle and her appearance in general

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Recent Examples of making over The new owners have begun making over the building, starting with the lobby. — Zak Spector, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 The Army is trying to reverse that reputation by making over a select number of dining halls with tasty, nutritious meals. — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2026 Sacramento could get under the first apron and tax moving on from DeRozan, but would lack real flexibility without being able to move on from LaVine or Sabonis, the latter of whom is making over $94 million combined over the next two seasons. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Even those who have been considered rich for making over $100,000 are resorting to penny-pinching habits. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Among shoppers making over $150,000, adoption rose to just under 13%. — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 June 2026 Those making over $1 million would pay a greater share to increase funding for public services and invest in housing, education and infrastructure. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026 For Notre Dame, this is one of the benefits of taking single-digit transfers each cycle as opposed to making over half the roster. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 May 2026 And Van Wagoner doesn’t want humans to be forgotten in the rush to automate and turn decision-making over to machines. — Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026

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Verb

The couple first tried for locations in Chicago and San Francisco and finally ended up in Exposition Park, taking over land that was once parking lots and transforming it into a futuristic museum that has been likened to a spaceship.

— Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Boise has been transforming its airport over the last few years, including by building employee parking and shifting the cell phone waiting lot from the airport’s campus to a lot near Curtis and Victory roads.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of transforming

Verb

Like NBCUniversal and Disney, WarnerMedia had finally decided to enter the costly direct-to-consumer streaming market after a decade of ceding it to Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026
After ceding its lead, first to Red Bull and then to McLaren, his team is atop the standings again and favored to win the 2026 season.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of ceding

Verb

After the pandemic shuttered his Inglewood barbershop job, Hector Trinidad reinvented himself, converting a yellow school bus into a curbside barbershop parked just outside USC.

— Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
These questions explain why transcription quality matters far beyond simply converting speech into text.

— Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of converting

Verb

Once in office, Escalona quickly began to roll back parts of Carollo’s legacy, including transferring the Tower Theater back to MDC.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Directly transferring the original walking policy failed because the second robot had different body proportions, joint configurations, and motor characteristics.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of transferring

Verb

Doing the math, that leaves two other units with residents who will have a say since allowing the foundation to take over the entire space would require changing the co-op’s bylaws, Richards said.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
Asked about their firm’s primary hurdle in managing the current trade landscape, the vast majority (57 percent) said policy uncertainty, like tariffs changing with little notice, as their foremost challenge.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of changing

Verb

As more officers arrived, Kelly began directing the response, assigning priority to the most critically injured.

— Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Police emphasized that assigning the case to the Homicide Detail does not indicate Lupton's death has been ruled a homicide.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of assigning

Verb

The bill, easily passed in a 370-48 vote, extends the African Growth and Opportunity Act for two more years without modifying it.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Context Preservation Capture and preserve comprehensive customer context across all platforms before modifying internal employee workflows.

— Jerry Haywood, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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