think up

/θɪŋk əp/

Other forms: thought up; thinking up; thinks up

Definitions of think up

1. verb

   devise or invent
   “He thought up a plan to get rich quickly”

   synonyms: concoct, dream up, hatch, think of

   types:

   idealise, idealize

   form ideals

   cook up, fabricate, fabulate, invent, make up, manufacture

   make up something artificial or untrue

   mythologise, mythologize

   construct a myth

   confabulate

   unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

   concoct, trump up

   invent

   spin

   make up a story

   vamp, vamp up

   make up

   type of:

   create by mental act, create mentally

   create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands