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What does made-up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word made-up? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
  2. invented or fabricated
  3. changed by the application of cosmetics
  4. arranged or put together
  5. (Britain, regional) delighted, pleased, thrilled
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Precious or not, made-up stories take us forward or back in time and put us inside the souls of people with whom we have nothing in common.
The race will stick to made-up roads and MAFF has given permission for it to go ahead despite the foot and mouth crisis.
Nicola recognized, with the way Michael was gesturing, that it was one of his hilarious, usually made-up stories.
Unlike the rest of us, who looked very overly made-up in our stage makeup, she looked natural.
In my book, Thanksgiving is just some made-up holiday someone invented to sell more turkeys, so I wasn't going to do anything for it.
I remember a time as a child when my sister and I shared an imaginary world of made-up creatures.

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