make over

Verb

1. To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.
   • We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite.
   • Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork […] - 2006, Prevention, volume 58, number 12, page 142:
2. To give a new physical look to, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes.
   • Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow.
3. To improve upon or take in a new direction.
   • The senator needs to make over his image.
4. To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.
   • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very...
   • Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R. - 1962 April, D....
5. To praise (someone) excessively.