dream up

verb

dreamed up or dreamt up; dreaming up; dreams up

transitive verb

: to form in the mind : devise, concoct

Examples of dream up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sandra Tsing Loh served as the unrehearsed actor on opening night, following the script’s instructions and ultimately presiding over an evening of charades dreamed up in advance by an oracle. —Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025

Getty Images The base of Klum's eye makeup, dreamed up by makeup artist Linda Hay, appears to be an ample amount of smoky black shadow all the way around the eye and tightlined with black liner, which extends into wings. —Marci Robin, Allure, 14 May 2025

Adding the same color bleed to the existing app icons won’t help in that regard, but is Google maybe taking the opportunity to dream up something all-new for the others? —David Phelan, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

She was given time to do a bit of free thinking to dream up characters between the holidays. —Katy Henriksen, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1837, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dream up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup