でっち上げる
でっちあげる
Also written 捏ち上げる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cook up; to trump up (a charge); to concoct
- to cobble together; to put together (in a slapdash manner)
Kanji
- 上 up. Read as あげる.
Example sentences
- きっとジムがその話をでっちあげたんだ。
I am sure that Jim made up that story. - 私は君があの事故に関してその話をデッチ上げたと見ている。
I think you made up that story about the accident. - 彼は話をでっち上げた。
He made up the story. - 彼はその話を全部でっちあげた。
He made up the whole story. - 彼はそれをでっち上げたに違いない。
He must have made it up.