Here are some different ways in which do up, make up and make out can be used. What is the meaning of the phrasal verb in each case?

1. Take this prescription to the chemist and she’ll make it up for you.
   prepare it so you can use it
2. Can you make out the little white house on the mountain side?
   
3. A human being is made up of many, often conflicting, desires.
   
4. The present was beautifully done up in gold paper.
   
5. I just can’t make Joe out. He’s so strange.
   
6. Let’s advertise the talk and hope we make up the numbers a bit.
   
7. He made out that he had never loved anyone else. She believed him.
   
8. We’re planning to do up our bathroom at the weekend. It’s looking rather old and dull.