COOKED (UP) Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

cooked (up)

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Definition of cooked (up)

past tense of cook (up)

as in devised

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination cooked up a scheme to get out of doing the dishes

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While many may remember the warrior Achilles from the Trojan War, Odysseus was the cunning strategist who devised the famous Trojan Horse plan to enter Troy.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Wirsching headed up the Roundtable on Historical Responsibility that devised the new procedures.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026

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It’s constructed on some of the softest coco bread around, but that’s not the best part.

— Justin Brown, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
The suit alleges those employees knew the warehouse constructed on the property in 2022 would be used for fireworks storage and operations but did not enforce applicable safety and environmental requirements.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026

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One thing that really struck me in that Postman book was that before radio and television was invented, there was no way to be a reader, because there was no way to not be a reader.

— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Bungling comic book store owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman) creates global Armageddon-like havoc by breaking a device invented by Sheldon and Leonard, neither of whom appear in the series.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

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