drum up
verb
drummed up; drumming up; drums up
transitive verb
1
: to bring about by persistent effort
drum up some business
2
: invent, originate
drum up a new method
Synonyms
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook (up)
- devise
- excogitate
- fabricate
- invent
- make up
- manufacture
- think (up)
- trump up
- vamp (up)
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune
Word History
First Known Use
1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1
drum up
verb
as in to devise
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
Relevance
- devise
- construct
- concoct
- trump up
- invent
- design
- make up
- manufacture
- vamp (up)
- come up with
- cook (up)
- produce
- hatch
- excogitate
- think (up)
- fabricate
- contrive
- dream
- coin
- imagine
- visualize
- vision
- conceive
- envision
- fantasize
- improvise
- daydream
- envisage
- extemporize
- picture
- ad-lib
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- copy
- reproduce
- duplicate
- mimic
- clone
- replicate
- imitate
- reduplicate
- copycat