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单词 drums 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

drums up

verb

present tense third-person singular of drum up
as in constructs
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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  • constructs
  • devises
  • concocts
  • invents
  • trumps up
  • designs
  • vamps (up)
  • excogitates
  • cooks (up)
  • manufactures
  • comes up with
  • makes up
  • thinks (up)
  • produces
  • hatches
  • dreams
  • contrives
  • coins
  • extemporizes
  • fabricates
  • visions
  • envisions
  • daydreams
  • conceives
  • visualizes
  • fantasizes
  • envisages
  • improvises
  • pictures
  • imagines
  • ad-libs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • copies
  • reduplicates
  • mimics
  • clones
  • duplicates
  • replicates
  • imitates
  • reproduces
  • copycats
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