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COOK UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concoct something artificial or untrue
Synonyms:
cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "cook up" is one way to...):
concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cook up"):
mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)
confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)
concoct; trump up (invent)
spin (make up a story)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
Example:
concoct a strange mixture
Synonyms:
concoct; cook up
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "cook up" is one way to...):
cook; fix; make; prepare; ready (prepare for eating by applying heat)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
