Make Over Meaning

(idiomatic) To transfer ownership, especially by means of a legal document.

Example:   We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite.‎
  Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow.‎
  The senator needs to make over his image.‎
1915, George A. Birmingham, Gossamer, chapterI:
  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 gladly make mine over to him if I could.