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make up
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of MAKE UP
1
to be all the substance of <the book is made up of 20 chapters>
Related Words embody, epitomize, incarnate, incorporate, integrate, materialize, personify, substantiate; complement, complete, supplement; fill (out), flesh (out)
2
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <she keeps making up excuses as to why she hasn't yet finished the project>
Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
3
to form by putting together parts or materials <we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”>
Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
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