made-up

• made up

made-up (comparative more made-up, superlative most made-up)

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

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

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

3. Arranged or put together.

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

4. (UK, regional) Delighted, pleased, thrilled.

   I was made-up when the local team won.

5. Built up (to a higher level).
   • 1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830:

     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.

• make up

• paumed, upmade