| Allg. |
invent; contrive; excogitate; fabricate; fib; romance; trump up; whomp up; trump; make sth. up (The 22-year-old Abbotsford woman who called 9-1-1 claiming a stranger forced his way into her apartment, attacked her, then sexually assaulted her admitted she had made the whole thing up. ART Vancouver); confabulate; extemporize; romanticize; go off (I made him the victim in a crime novel, which I duly went off and wrote lop20); make up; confect; cook; forge; concoct; devise; cook up (to invent or make up a false story etc. • He cooked up a story about his car having broken down) |
