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Definition

make up sth phrasal verb

phrasal verb
to form a particular thing, amount or number as a whole
Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
The book is made up of a number of different articles.

(Definition of make up sth phrasal verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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