fixing up

Restoring to condition

Fixing up is repairing, renovating, or improving something that needs attention: We spent the summer fixing up the old farmhouse.

It also means arranging or preparing: Let me fix you up with a drink.

To fix someone up is to arrange a date or romantic introduction for them: My sister keeps trying to fix me up with her coworkers.

Related

paint · modernize · sprucing · touching up · fresh coat of paint · recondition · repair · rebuild · neaten · prettifying · making over · tidying · elbow grease · do it yourself · revamp · rehabilitating · patching up · renovate

Categories
Opposites
repair and improvement

fixing updemolishing

Destroying a structure completely

destroying · tearing down · wrecking · ruining · trashing

arrangement/organization

fixing upmessing up

Failing through carelessness

disarranging · disordering · jumbling · scattering · disorganizing

matchmaking/setting up

fixing upbreaking up

Ending a romantic relationship

splitting up · separating · keeping apart · sabotaging · discouraging

Family

fix, fixed, fixing, mending, fix up, fixes, fixer, fixers, refixing

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G