He lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it.
- fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
- misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.
- deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.
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- They made up an excuse not to go to the meeting.
- She told us stories about her family, but they were all made up.
- There was no fire - he made it all up.
- If you can't think what to write, just make something up.
- I made up a few words about his role in the company.
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Could you make up a list of all the things that need to be done?
fabrics & fashion specialized
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You'll have to make up the work you missed while you were away.
make someone/something up
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make up something
make up
[also UK make it up]
make-up noun [U] [PARTS]
The make-up of something or someone is the combination of things that form it:
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make up sth
Tuition makes up $154.7 million of the university's $389.5 million budget.
the different people who together form a group, or the different things that something consists of:
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make something up
The type and make-up of the family differed from house to house and from street to street.
Other considerations included pay for additional make-up and rehearsal time as well as for participation in non-musical visual shtick.
These are structures that are inserted in sentences, but are argued not to be part of the syntactic make-up of the host clause.
A make-up date for testing was arranged for participants who were absent or unable to participate on the regularly scheduled day of testing.
The problem is that no test has accounted for the quality of the oocyte whose genetic make-up is paramount to reproductive outcome.
There is also a different rhythmical make-up to this sequence.
This make-up is shared with their children, who might also demonstrate emphasis on selected vocabulary categories for the same reason.
Everyday solidarity was a key part of their make-up.
Its internal make-up directly reflects the tripartite hierarchical structure we talked about in the previous section.
This allowed for many individuals to contribute to the genetic make-up of the population.
The way we dress, our make-up and everything.
They originate as disguised substitutes for other words, but their playful make-up does not make them in any way more innocent than their non-knock-knock equivalents.
The hypocritical smiles are cracking the overdone make-up of its faces and facades held uneasily by feeble cardboard props.
In the same fashion, works on later discursive projects such as nationalism need to consider the contingent historical production of its make-up.
I move to consider why policemen, legal officials, journalists, and the watching public became so apparently obsessed with make-up and its meanings.
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