Synonyms of drummed up

drummed up

verb

past tense of drum up

as in devised

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devised
• concocted
• constructed
• invented
• thought (up)
• cooked (up)
• came up with
• designed
• trumped up
• vamped (up)
• manufactured
• excogitated
• produced
• made up
• fabricated
• contrived
• hatched
• conceived
• imagined
• coined
• dreamed
• visualized
• envisioned
• improvised
• fantasized
• envisaged
• daydreamed
• pictured
• extemporized
• visioned
• ad-libbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• copied
• duplicated
• reproduced
• cloned
• replicated
• imitated
• mimicked
• reduplicated
• copycatted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of drummed up

Fox wrote about meeting Stoltz and resolving any tension drummed up between them, 40 years after the role switched hands, in his own memoir, 2025’s Future Boy. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2026

The show is part of MIA Market‘s GreenLit showcase in Rome this week, which will have drummed up interest. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Each of the last two years, the fundraiser drummed up about $170,000 in donations. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2026

The outbreak was largely fueled by a swell of vaccine hesitancy, drummed up by anti-vaccine activists. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

But the pardon wouldn’t protect him from a state prosecution or from any perjury charge that could be drummed up from his testimony now. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

And for all of the outrage Musk has drummed up around The Odyssey, the film has not notably suffered at the box office at all. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

May-Tove Smiseth, an archaeologist and adviser on the Innlandet County Council, said the treasure has drummed up excitement in the archaeological community. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026

Organizations like the Camden County chapter of the NAACP and the ACLU-NJ drummed up attention to these figures by issuing announcements and press briefings. — John A. Shjarback, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2026