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When you make up a story or idea or reason, you invent it in your mind. You use your imagination to create it.
Sometimes my mom reads my little sister a story, but sometimes she makes one up. The stories she makes up are always really funny.The teacher made up an example to help the students understand better.The boss didn't believe Mr. Brown's excuse for being late. He thought Mr. Brown made it up. |
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We often use the phrase "make up" when we are talking about the parts that make a whole thing. For example, the eyes, the nose, and the mouth are some of the parts of a person's face. We can say that these things "make up" a person's face, or we can say that a person's face is "made up" of these parts.
Fifty states make up the United States.Our class is made up of ten boys and twelve girls.- similar words:
- compose, create
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