write up

verb writes up · writing up · wrote up · writ up · written up

1. transitive To produce by writing. The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him.
2. transitive To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of. Near-synonym: cite
3. transitive To write about positively; to praise in writing. Near-synonym: talk up
4. transitive To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset. The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.
5. transitive To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety. She carefully wrote up each stamp in her collection, noting the Scott catalog number, perforation gauge, and printing plate variety.
6. transitive Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, up. I can't write up in the attic; it's too cold there in the winter and too hot there in the summer.