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cook (up)

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cook (up)

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes

Synonyms of cook (up)

concoct, construct, contrive, devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)

Words Related to cook (up)

coin, design, hatch, produce

daydream, dream, fantasize

conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize

ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Phrases Synonymous with cook (up)

come up with

Near Antonyms of cook (up)

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

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