English > cook up: 2 senses > verb 2, creationMeaning | make up something artificial or untrue. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Synonyms | fabricate, manufacture, make up, invent |
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Narrower | confabulate | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory |
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mythologize, mythologise | Construct a myth |
spin | make up a story |
trump up, concoct | invent |
vamp, vamp up | make up |
Broader | think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct | devise or invent / invent |
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See also | cook | tamper, with the purpose of deception |
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Spanish | fabricar, inventar |
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Catalan | fabricar, inventar |
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