Usually means: Create or compose something fictional.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. make up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. make up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. make-up, make-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. make-up, make up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Make-Up, Make-up, make-up: Wordnik
  6. make-up, make (sb/sth) up, make up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. make-up, make up: Wiktionary
  8. Make-up, make-up, make up: Dictionary.com
  9. make-up: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. MAKE-UP, Make-Up (Japanese band), Make Up (EP), Make Up (The Script song), Make Up (Vice and Jason Derulo song), Make Up (album), Make-up (disambiguation), Make up, The Make-Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Make-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. make-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. make-up, make up: Rhymezone
  14. make-up, make-up (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. make up, make up (with): Phrasal Verb Page
  16. make-up, make up: Free Dictionary
  17. make-up, make up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. make-up, make up: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Make-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Make-up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. make up: Legal dictionary
  4. Make-up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make-up, make up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. make up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Make up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. make-up, make up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make up)

verb:  To constitute, to compose.
verb:  (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
verb:  To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
verb:  (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
verb:  (intransitive) To compensate (for).
verb:  To invent, to imagine, to concoct
verb:  To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
verb:  To assemble, to prepare.
verb:  To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
verb:  To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
verb:  To apply cosmetics.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
verb:  To make peace, to settle a dispute.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
verb:  To arrange, to advance.
verb:  (obsolete) To arrange (a marriage); to organise (a treaty).
verb:  To draw near to, approach to.
verb:  To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
verb:  To build, to complete.
verb:  (obsolete) To build, construct (a tower, city, etc.).
verb:  (obsolete) To build up (a bank, wall, etc.) where it has fallen away; to repair.
noun:  Alternative form of makeup [(countable, uncountable) An item's composition.]

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