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contrive; fabricate (to make up something that is not true (a story, accusation etc.) • to fabricate an excuse); trump up; excogitate; feign; fib; romance; confabulate; make believe; tell stories; romanticize; make up out of one's head (Interex); trump; read into (Artjaazz); coin; confect; fictionalise; fictionalize; manufacture; forge; mint; make things up (4uzhoj); make the things up (что-либо SAKHstasia); make up (make *something* up • I am not crazy or making this up. • I have seen them and so have my neighbours. We are not making all this up. – Мы ничего не выдумываем. ART Vancouver); make up (They just don't do interviews, so people make things up. 4uzhoj); devise; comment; counterfeit; fable; flam; frame; framing; invent; quoin; tell tales; tell a tale; make up; cook up; imagine (Children often imagine that there are frightening animals under their beds; You're just imagining things)

think up (Не thought up a story of how a young girl...)

think up; twist; dream up; make stuff up (что-либо Dyatlova Natalia)