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单词 to fake up
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to fake up
to fake up
1. transitive. To alter or tamper with (something) so as to make it appear more presentable or plausible; (sometimes) spec. to conceal the defects of (an animal) in order to facilitate its sale. Also: to disguise (something) as something or someone.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 352/1 The ring is made out of brass gilt buttons,..it's faked up to rights.
1869 Sporting Times 13 Mar. 85/2 It is just ‘on the cards’ that the reverent gentlemen may..have been ‘faked up’ as Reformers.
1874 Punch 7 Mar. 98/1 P'raps he'd ha' come to you with him [sc. a horse] faked up for sale.
1878 Judy 22 May 329/1 She tried it on with us..but it wouldn't do, 'cos you see she couldn't fake herself up like this.
1883 Emporia (Kansas) Daily News 26 Mar. It needn't be raw [meat] for a fact..it can be cooked beef, faked up to look raw.
1918 Sketch 18 Dec. 370/2 The three popular cross-Channel packets Empress, Riviera, and Engadine, faked up as seaplane-carriers.
1983 J. Okely Traveller-gypsies vi. 99 The broken winded and lame [horses] are ‘faked up’ and passed as good and sprightly.
2018 Sc. Star (Nexis) 23 Aug. 5 The ITV2 show's bosses were anxious to squash talk of faking up what the viewers see after they edit down 24 hours of TV recording to 47 minutes.
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a. transitive. To make by adapting existing materials; to cobble together, patch up, improvise; (sometimes more generally) to construct, concoct. In later use often with some suggestion of deception or simulation, and hence merging into sense 3.
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1866 T. Sutton Unconventional II. 181 What use, I ask, could you or I make of such things [sc. artist's studies]? Are we to fake up a picture from one or more of them, and give it a fine classical name?
1871 Season (N.Y.) 11 Mar. 77/1 The scenery was good, though mostly ‘faked’ up from old sets.
1874 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 July While the city newsman of this journal was engaged in ‘faking’ up his notes.
1885 Bull. (Sydney) 2 May 10/2 We consider that statement of Alfred's a clear proof that his ague dodge was faked up.
1929 A. Nadaar in Mercury Story Bk. 95 He managed to fake up some sort of a hand-crusher for the quartz.
1999 W. Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties xviii. 77 It was one of those voices that they fake up from found audio: speech cobbled from wind down skyscraper canyons, the creaking of Great Lakes ice, tree frogs clanging in the Southern night.
b. transitive. spec. To write (a piece of text, esp. a newspaper or magazine article) to order, typically by using existing material; to rehash. Now rare.
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1882 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 29 Apr. 3/2 It was cheaper for Palmer to get Cazauran on a salary of $25 a week to fake up a play from the novel..than to pay the Englishman his royalty.
1898 ‘G. Paston’ Writer of Books (1899) 41 If nothing particular is going on, you fake up an article on old hats or old boots..and try it on one of the illustrated monthlies.
1939 E. C. Bentley in J. Rhode Detection Medley 74 What they did was to fake up a story about the tabard which might appeal to an American purchaser.
1967 Commonweal 24 Mar. 21/2 In his youth he was briefly a lecturer in an Indian college, where..he faked up lectures from a standard text.
3. transitive. To counterfeit, falsify, forge (something); = senses 7b, 7e.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)]
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counterfeitc1386
feign1484
flamc1500
adulterate?1526
mint1593
fashion1600
fudge1674
sham1699
doctor1750
fake1884
to fake up1885
phoney1940
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1885 Boston Daily Globe 20 Oct. 1/5 His wife..placed her case in the hands of a man said to be mixed up in the present conspiracy case. In his hands the required evidence was ‘faked up’.
1911 S. Ford Torchy ii. 32 Me and Hunchy fakes up this little billy ducks [= billet-doux] to Mr. Hinkey Tolliver.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Sept. 37 How he must have pitied Walpole, who had to fake up the armorial stained glass in his drawing room. He had the real McCoy.
2015 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 30 Sept. An elaborate flowchart was faked-up showing him, his wife and her father linked in a crime syndicate and drug trafficking ring.
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