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trump up

verb as in belie

verb as in fabricate

verb as in forge

verb as in manufacture

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verb as in rig

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He was arrested on trumped up charges and lost everything.

Khan said exiled journalists often face two major legal threats from their home countries: “investigation, prosecution and punishment in absentia, and the pursuit of their extradition on trumped up criminal charges.”

“In my mind, they trumped up the sanction to cease my communications,” Longshore said.

Western officials describe the charges as trumped up.

From BBC

Rights groups have accused Iran of trying to win concessions from other countries through arrests on security charges that may have been trumped up.

From Reuters

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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