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单词 drumming up
释义

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)
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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

drumming up

verb

present participle of drum up
as in devising
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

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  • devising
  • concocting
  • constructing
  • inventing
  • trumping up
  • making up
  • coming up with
  • designing
  • cooking (up)
  • vamping (up)
  • manufacturing
  • thinking (up)
  • excogitating
  • producing
  • hatching
  • fabricating
  • contriving
  • dreaming
  • visualizing
  • envisioning
  • coining
  • daydreaming
  • improvising
  • conceiving
  • fantasizing
  • imagining
  • visioning
  • envisaging
  • extemporizing
  • ad-libbing
  • picturing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • copying
  • cloning
  • duplicating
  • reproducing
  • imitating
  • reduplicating
  • mimicking
  • replicating
  • copycatting
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