Local English word record

dream up

verb · 1 sense

devise or invent

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Examples

  • He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
  • no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software

Word relationships

Synonyms

think up, think of, hatch, concoct

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Princeton WordNet 3.0