The Collaborative International Dictionary
Made \Made\, a. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. [WordNet sense 1] 2. having the sheets and blankets set in order; -- of a bed; as, is the bed made?. 3. successful or assured of success; as, a self-made man. Now I am a made man forever. --Christopher Marlowe Made up.
Complete; perfect. ``A made up villain.''
--Shak.Falsely devised; fabricated; as, a made up story.
Artificial; as, a made up figure or complexion.
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(alternative spelling of made-up English) v
(en-pastmake up)
Usage examples of "made up".
My old room had been cleared of any sign that Joanna Martin had ever inhabited it, but Mannie had very obviously not moved back in for neither of the two beds was made up.
The result was that Coffin Ed's face looked as though it had been made up in Hollywood for the role of the Frankenstein monster.
I made up my mind that there would be no audience, and that I should not have to speak, but, as a matter of duty, I went to the church, and found it packed with people.
Right then, I made up my mind to cooperate with the psychiatrist, no matter what it cost me in embarrassment.
In any case, it seemed doubtful whether Sianadh would be able to fashion weapons out of spidersilk and the few thin boughs of willow and yew on board, but he had made up his mind.
Except for Karla, the boyos and the coven who had made up Jaenelle's First Circle hadn't quite forgiven him for the games he'd played to keep them away from her while she created the spells that would protect them and Kaeleer.
The vast System-wide flow of telepathic information from the millions of Stardancers who made up the Starmind passed through her, but she did not pay any conscious attention to it, and sent nothing back out into the matrix.
For now you see how reason of necessity shows that the celestial state must be made up from men, and that this can only be by the forgiveness of sins, which man can never have but by man, who must be at the same time Divine, and reconcile sinners to God by his own death.
She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.
In Rio, a congressional commission identified 15 death squads, most of them made up of police officers and financed by merchants.