think up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

think up (third-person singular simple present thinks up, present participle thinking up, simple past and past participle thought up)

1. (idiomatic) To create in one’s mind; to invent.

   I can think up plenty of excuses not to go, but we really should attend.

Synonyms

• come up with

Translations

create in one's mind; invent

• Bulgarian: измислям (bg) (izmisljam)
• Catalan: idear (ca)
• Dutch: bedenken (nl), verzinnen (nl)
• Esperanto: elpensi
• Italian: ideare (it), inventare (it)
• Norwegian: finne på
• Polish: wymyślać (pl) impf, wymyślić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: imaginar (pt)
• Russian: приду́мывать (ru) impf (pridúmyvatʹ), приду́мать (ru) pf (pridúmatʹ); выду́мывать (ru) impf (vydúmyvatʹ), вы́думать (ru) pf (výdumatʹ)
• Spanish: imaginar (es)
• Swedish: hitta på (sv)
• Ukrainian: вига́дувати impf (vyháduvaty), ви́гадати pf (výhadaty), виду́мувати impf (vydúmuvaty), ви́думати pf (výdumaty), приду́мувати impf (prydúmuvaty), приду́мати pf (prydúmaty)