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Definition of 'make up'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) makeup, make-up
an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
"he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later"

2. (noun) constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up
the way in which someone or something is composed

3. (verb) makeup, make-up, war paint
cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance

4. (verb) constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be
form or compose
"This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"

5. (verb) make up
devise or compose
"This designer makes up our Spring collections"

6. (verb) pay, pay off, make up, compensate
do or give something to somebody in return
"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

7. (verb) make up, catch up with
make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
"I have to make up a French exam"; "Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?"

8. (verb) fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent
make up something artificial or untrue

9. (verb) make, make up
put in order or neaten
"make the bed"; "make up a room"

10. (verb) compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

11. (verb) reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle
come to terms
"After some discussion we finally made up"

12. (verb) make up
apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
"She makes herself up every morning"

Definition of 'make up'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) make up
to invent
She made up some story about getting lost.

2.  make up
to equal a particular number or part
Hispanics make up more than 50% of the population.

3.  make up
to replace sth or compensate for sth
You have to make up the work you missed.

4.  make up
to become friends again after an argument
I wish the two of them would just make up.; Have you made up with Liam yet?

5.  make up
make it up to sb
to do sth nice for sb as a way of apologizing to them
Let me buy you lunch to make it up to you.

Translation of 'make up'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to invent He made up the whole story.
Afrikaans: opmaak, uitdink	Arabic: يَخْتَلِق	Bulgarian: измислям
Brazilian: inventar	Czech: vymyslit si	German: erfinden
Danish: opdigte; finde på	Greek: επινοώ	Spanish: inventar
Estonian: välja mõtlema	Farsi: تولید کردن	Finnish: keksiä
French: inventer	Hebrew: לְהַמצִיא	Hindi: गढ़ना
Croatian: upotpuniti	Hungarian: kitalál	Indonesian: mengarang
Icelandic: búa til	Italian: inventare	Japanese: でっち上げる
Korean: (이야기 따위를) 날조하다	Lithuanian: išgalvoti	Latvian: sadomāt
Malay: mencipta	Dutch: verzinnen	Norwegian: dikte opp
Polish: wymyśleć	Persian: تولید کردن	Pashto: جوړول
Portuguese: inventar	Romanian: a seîmpăca	Russian: выдумывать
Slovak: vymyslieť si	Slovenian: izmisliti si	Serbian: izmisliti
Swedish: hitta på	Thai: สร้าง	Turkish: uydurmak
Taiwanese: 捏造	Ukrainian: вигадувати	Urdu: کہانی گڑھنا
Vietnamese: sáng tác	Chinese: 捏造
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