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dream up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb dream up has 1 sense
- dream up(v = verb.creation) concoct, hatch, think of, think up - devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Sample sentence:
Did he dream up his major works over a short period of time?
THESAURUS
dream up
beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, dense, design, develop, devise, discover, engender, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, formulate, frame, generate, give being to, give rise to, hatch, hatch up, ideate, imagine, improvise, invent, make do with, make up, mature, mint, mold, originate, plan, procreate, produce, shape, spawn, strike out, suppose, think out, think up, vamp upROGET THESAURUS
dream up
Imagination
VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.
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