COOKING (UP) Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

cooking (up)

verb

Definition of cooking (up)

present participle of cook (up)

as in devising

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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Sarah Sherman Samuel is known for devising furniture worthy of an art show, and the Lulu and Georgia Hamilton sideboard is no exception.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 July 2026
Ten years on, after devising the victorious Trojan Horse gambit, Ulysses attempts to return to Ithaca and the pining Penelope, whose palace has been overrun with scheming suitors seeking her hand.

— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

Definition of devising

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Ghost also accused Wilson and her PR team of concocting a smear campaign against her.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
And she’s spent a decade scaling her brand into an industry disrupter; Ellsworth began concocting prebiotic drinks in 2015, founding her business just one year later.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026

Definition of concocting

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Better access began not with constructing another clinic or hiring an entirely new workforce, but with examining how existing capacity was used.

— Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of constructing

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Whether inventing the Bong-a-Tron or freeing themselves after hours trapped inside a Party City parking lot, these misadventures almost always hinge on weed.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
However, blaming regional choice programs for district deficits or inventing narratives about wealthy RESCs will not hire a teacher, fix a roof, or improve a reading score.

— Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of inventing

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The Chicago school board voted to add two questions to the November ballot gauging whether city voters would support drumming up new revenue for Chicago Public Schools.

— Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Both candidates spent the post-primary period drumming up support ahead of the Democrats’ gathering in San Diego.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of drumming up

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