made-up

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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

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   A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.

   2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, page 4, column 1

3. Arranged or put together.

   The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.

4. UKregionalDelighted, 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