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单词 trump up
释义

trump up

verb

trumped up; trumping up; trumps up

transitive verb

1
: to concoct especially with intent to deceive : fabricate, invent
2
archaic : to cite as support for an action or claim

Synonyms

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

parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house

Word History

First Known Use

1695, in the meaning defined at sense 1

trump up

verb

as in to devise
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • devise
  • construct
  • drum up
  • concoct
  • invent
  • design
  • come up with
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • vamp (up)
  • produce
  • excogitate
  • cook (up)
  • think (up)
  • hatch
  • dream
  • contrive
  • imagine
  • fabricate
  • coin
  • vision
  • envision
  • conceive
  • improvise
  • visualize
  • daydream
  • fantasize
  • envisage
  • extemporize
  • picture
  • ad-lib

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • duplicate
  • mimic
  • reproduce
  • copy
  • imitate
  • clone
  • replicate
  • reduplicate
  • copycat
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