MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME

Meaning of MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME in English

to do sth quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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UP — I. (|)əp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TIME — I. ˈtīm noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English time, tyme, from Old English tīma, tȳma; akin to Old Norse …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
FOR — I. fə(r), (|)fȯ(ə)r, (|)fȯ(ə), in R speech in the southern US also (|)fär preposition Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LOST — adjective Etymology: from past participle of lose 1. a. : not made use of : wasted lost hours : missed …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LOST — (v. t.) Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost …
Английский словарь Webster
LOST — (v. t.) Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a …
Английский словарь Webster
LOST — ( v. t. ) Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TIME — /tuym/ , n., adj., v., timed, timing . n. 1. the system of those sequential relations that any event has …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MAKE — make 1 — makable , adj. /mayk/ , v. , made, making , n. v.t. 1. to bring into existence …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LOST — /lawst, lost/ , adj. 1. no longer possessed or retained: lost friends. 2. no longer to be found: lost articles. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
UP — I. ˈəp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MAKE — I. ˈmāk verb ( made ˈmād ; mak·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English macian; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LOST — adjective Etymology: past participle of lose Date: 15th century 1. : not made use of, won, or claimed 2. a. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UP — prep upon. 2. up ·adv aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up …
Webster English vocab
MAKE — vt to be engaged or concerned in. 2. make ·noun a companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. …
Webster English vocab
LOST — vt parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor. 2. lost ·vt parted with unwillingly …
Webster English vocab
MAKE — [make] vb made ; mak.ing [ME, fr. OE macian; akin to OHG mahhon to prepare, make, Gk magenai to be …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Britannica English vocabulary
LOST — lost BrE AmE lɒst lɔːst AmE \ lɔːst lɑːst ▶ ˌ lost ˈ cause BrE AmE ▶ ˌ lost ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UP — / ʌp; NAmE / adverb , preposition , adjective , verb , noun ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TIME — / taɪm; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun —see also times MINUTES / HOURS / YEARS, etc. 1. [ …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MAKE — / meɪk; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( made , made / meɪd; NAmE /) CREATE 1. make …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LOST — / lɒst; NAmE lɔːst/ adjective 1. unable to find your way; not knowing where you are : We always get …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UP — I. up 1 S1 W1 /ʌp/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition , adjective 1 . TO A HIGHER POSITION towards …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TIME — I. time 1 S1 W1 /taɪm/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ time , ↑ overtime , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LOST — I. lost 1 /lɒst $ lɒːst/ BrE AmE the past tense and past participle of ↑ lose II. lost 2 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FOR — I. for 1 S1 W1 /fə; strong fɔː $ fər strong fɔːr/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. --adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TIME — n. & v. --n. 1 the indefinite continued progress of existence, events, etc., in past, present, and future regarded as …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MAKE — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. made) 1 tr. construct; create; form from parts or other substances (made …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TIME — n. & v. n. 1 the indefinite continued progress of existence, events, etc., in past, present, and future regarded as …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MAKE — v. & n. v. (past and past part. made) 1 tr. construct; create; form from parts or other substances (made …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TIME — n. & v. --n. 1. the indefinite continued progress of existence, events, etc., in past, present, and future regarded as …
Oxford English vocab
MAKE — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. made) 1. tr. construct; create; form from parts or other substances (made …
Oxford English vocab
UP — I. PREPOSITION, ADVERB, AND ADJECTIVE USES The preposition is pronounced /ʌp/. The adverb and adjective are pronounced /ʌp/. Frequency: The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MAKE — I. CARRYING OUT AN ACTION /meɪk/ ( makes, making, made) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TIME — ( times, timing, timed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Time is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LOST — Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Lost is the past tense and …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FOR — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LOST — I. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (= one you do not use ) ▪ Many people see the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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LOST — [adjective]To be/get lost is to not know where you are and how to get to a place.I got lost in …
Cambridge English vocab
UP — Synonyms and related words : above, abovestairs, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, add to, addition, advance, against, aggrandize, aggrandizement, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LOST — Synonyms and related words : abandoned, abashed, ablated, abroad, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, accursed, adrift, astray, at sea, away, baffled, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
UP — INDEX: 1. moving up to a higher place 2. looking, facing, or pointing upwards 3. to move upwards through the …
Longman Activator English vocab
TIME — INDEX: what time is it? 1. when you ask what time it is 2. ways of saying what time it …
Longman Activator English vocab
LOST — See ↑ LOSE 2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be lost • ↑ be lost/deep in thought • ↑ get lost • …
Longman Activator English vocab
LOST — INDEX: 1. to be lost 2. to become lost 3. a place where it is easy to get lost RELATED …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
LOST — adj. 25B6; adjective her lost keys : MISSING, mislaid, misplaced, vanished, disappeared, gone missing/astray, forgotten, nowhere to be found; absent, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
LOST — adj. 1 gone, departed, vanished, strayed; missing, mislaid, misplaced, irrecoverable They found my lost dog The airline told me that …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
LOST — adjective BAD : This morning I noticed that my purse was lost. GOOD : This morning I noticed that my …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
UP — 1. нареч. 1) вверх по, по направлению к 2) вдоль по; вглубь 3) против (течения, ветра и т. п.) 4) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TIME — 1. сущ. 1) а) время in/on one's own time ≈ в свободное время on time амер. ≈ точно, вовремя make …
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LOST — 1. прил. 1) разрушенный, сломанный (в том числе и морально); обессиленный to give smb. up for lost ≈ считать кого-л. …
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FOR — (полная форма); (редуцированная форма) 1. союз 1) ибо; ввиду того, что (вводит придаточное причины) This is no party question, for …
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