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cook up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb cook up has 2 senses
- cook up(v = verb.creation) concoct - prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture" is one way to cook, fix, make, prepare, ready
- cook up(v = verb.creation) fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture - make up something artificial or untrue; Array is one way to concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
THESAURUS
cook up
ad-lib, angle, beget, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, cabal, call into being, coin, collude, complot, conceive, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, counterfeit, countermine, counterplot, dash off, design, develop, devise, discover, do offhand, dream up, engender, engineer, evolve, extemporize, fabricate, fake, fantasize, finagle, finesse, fix, forge, formulate, frame, frame up, fudge, generate, give being to, give rise to, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hoke up, improvisate, improvise, intrigue, invent, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, lay a plot, machinate, make do with, make up, maneuver, manufacture, mature, mint, operate, originate, pack, pack the deal, plan, play by ear, plot, prearrange, preconcert, precontrive, predesign, premeditate, preorder, procreate, rig, scheme, scrap the plan, set up, sew up, spawn, stack the cards, strike off, strike out, think out, think up, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, trump up, vamp, vamp up, wangle, whip up, whomp up, wing it
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