esp. To fabricate, frame, invent (a false or imaginary story, lie, etc.); to devise (evil). Also, to pretend (something) to have happened, to fable.

To make up, concoct, fabricate, invent. Obsolete.

transitive. To devise, contrive, invent (especially something false or bad). Obsolete. (The quots. 1555 1599 appear to connect this with branch II.)

transitive. To feign, invent, make up falsely. rare.

transitive. In a bad sense. To contrive or make up deceitfully or falsely; to feign, forge, invent. archaic.

To find out or produce by mental activity. To devise something false or fictitious; to fabricate, feign, ‘make up’.

transitive. To say or talk about fictitiously; to relate as in a fable, fiction, or myth; to fabricate, invent (an incident, a personage, story…

figurative (from 1.) esp. in a bad or depreciatory sense: To fabricate, invent, make up (something specious, pretentious, or counterfeit).

transitive. To compose, compile. To concoct, invent, fabricate (a story, lie, fictional scene or character, etc.); to compose (verses, etc.)…

transitive. To invent (a fiction); to deliberately fabricate (a story, statement, etc.).

In various phrases expressing the fact of having survived a dangerous experience and therefore being able to recount or reflect upon it (esp. in to…

In bad sense: To ‘make up’; to frame or invent (a legend, lie, etc.); to forge (a document).

To make up, devise, or plan by concert, or by artificial combination; to put together, make up, or fabricate (a story, project, fraud, etc.).

To bring or put into, or bestow upon, by jobbery or trickery; to palm or pass off upon. Also, to get up, procure, or promote by trickery; also with up…

transitive. To make up (a fictitious story). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To invent, concoct, fabricate.

transitive. To counterfeit, make up, falsify. Frequently with up.