make sth up
(PREPARE) — phrasal verb with make /meɪk/ verb (made, made)Definition
› to prepare or arrange something by putting different things together: Could you make up a list of all the things that need to be done? He asked the man behind the counter to make up a box with a mixed selection of chocolates. The maid will make up your room later.Preparing › specialized to produce or prepare something from cloth: We could use the rest of the material to make up some curtains.Creating and producingInventing, designing and innovation › specialized If you make up a page, book, or newspaper, you arrange the text and pictures in the form in which they will be printed.Printing and word processing › If you make up a bed for someone, you put sheets and covers on a bed so that they have a place to sleep in your home.Preparing › UK If you make up a fire, you prepare it or put more wood or coal on it when it is burning.Starting fires
(Definition of make sth up (PREPARE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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