VAMPED (UP) Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

vamped (up)

verb

past tense of vamp (up)

as in devised

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything

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Advertisement As Claude began completing such tasks too reliably to reveal much, Freeman devised a test closer to the messiness of the real world.

— Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
What subterfuge has the author devised within a sentence, and what chills of humor or irony will run across its surface as the subterfuge is discovered?

— Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026

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The cocktail menu leans into the couple’s heritage with some Argentine staples, including the El Clásico of Fernet and Coke and El Diego, concocted with sweet vermouth, Coke and a splash of whiskey.

— Rick West, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
What Roth, and his longtime screenwriting partner Noah Belson have concocted is an unfleshed-out idea that is just left with the flesh.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026

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Homes can be visually inspected for compliance from the outside, and enclosing the ground level area for living space after the home is constructed and approved for occupancy would draw a reverse work order.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
This is what Prada, in collaboration with 2x4, an environments and branding firm, has constructed around its flagship Fifth Avenue building this spring.

— Lauren Sinclair, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026

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Bud Billiken, the page’s fictional editor/mascot described as the guardian and protector of children, was invented by Abbott and the Defender’s executive editor Lucius Harper.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
All the other stuff, the journalist and the train ride and stuff like that, is invented.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026

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