Upmade

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Having been made up or compensated for, as a deficit or shortfall is set right by adding what was missing
2. Describing something that was completed or restored by supplying what had been lacking or owed
3. Past tense of a rare verb meaning to make up for something, as in supplying a shortfall or repairing a loss

Etymology: "Upmade" is the past tense and past participle of "upmake," a verb formed from "up" and "make." The pairing is transparent: "up" in this sense intensifies or completes an action, as in "eat up" or "use up," and "make" is one of the oldest and most general verbs in English. Put together, "upmake" carries the sense of making something up, building it or assembling it, often in a finishing or preparing sense. The word follows the regular English pattern of combining a verb with the adverb "up" to produce a new verb whose meaning draws on both parts. Because the parts are common and their meanings are easy to see, the formation needs little explanation beyond that.