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单词 drummed up
释义

drum up

verb

drummed up; drumming up; drums up

transitive verb

1
: to bring about by persistent effort
drum up some business
2
: invent, originate
drum up a new method

Synonyms

  • concoct
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook (up)
  • devise
  • excogitate
  • fabricate
  • invent
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • think (up)
  • trump up
  • vamp (up)
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Example Sentences

anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1

drummed up

verb

past tense of drum up
as in devised
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • devised
  • concocted
  • constructed
  • trumped up
  • invented
  • designed
  • vamped (up)
  • cooked (up)
  • excogitated
  • manufactured
  • came up with
  • thought (up)
  • produced
  • made up
  • fabricated
  • contrived
  • hatched
  • conceived
  • imagined
  • coined
  • visualized
  • improvised
  • dreamed
  • envisioned
  • fantasized
  • envisaged
  • daydreamed
  • extemporized
  • dreamt
  • visioned
  • pictured
  • ad-libbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • copied
  • duplicated
  • cloned
  • reproduced
  • replicated
  • imitated
  • reduplicated
  • mimicked
  • copycatted
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