TO MAKE UP

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TO MAKE UP - [verb] to invent something in order to deceive people; to reduce the bad effect of something

They later found out that Kate made up the whole story. It made her laugh that everybody believed her.

The long and sunny spring made up for the cold and particularly unpleasant winter.

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