made up

Adjective

made-up (comparative more made-up, superlative most made-up)

1. Invented or fabricated.
   • He told me a made-up version of the events, but I demanded the truth.
2. Changed by the application of cosmetics; wearing make-up.
   • a freshly made-up clown
3. Arranged or put together.
   • The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.
4. (UK, regional) Delighted, pleased, thrilled.
   • I was made-up when the local team won.
5. Built up (to a higher level).
   • All three structures were sited on made-up ground, to depths up to about 20 ft., which had been deposited to form the railway embankments.1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830

Verb

make up (third-person singular simple present makes up, present participle making up, simple past and past participle made up)

1. To constitute, to compose.
   1. (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
      • The words "dream interpretation" […] remind one of all sorts of childish, superstitious notions, which make up the thread and woof of dream books, read by none but the ignorant and the primitive.1920, M. D. Eder, Dream Psychology, translation of original by Sigmund Freud
2. (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
   • He can make up the time next week.
3. (intransitive) To compensate (for).
   • What I lack in patience, I make up for in drive.
4. To invent, to imagine, to concoct
   1. To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
      • He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.

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