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"ref": "1996, Steven H. Gale, Encyclopedia of British Humorists, →ISBN:",
"text": "It's as if he were giving a performance of some character he's dreamed up, and his pale eyes wander in search of effect even in his apparently wildest moments.",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "1999, John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill, editors, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, →ISBN:",
"text": "I am not arguing that I can dream up any reality I like.",
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},
{
"ref": "2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, →ISBN:",
"text": "Since he had no way of returning to his homeland, and since remembering it made him suffer, he dreamed up a homeland he'd never had, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Christopher Nolan, Inception (motion picture), spoken by Fischer (Cillian Murphy):",
"text": "Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?",
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"To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal."
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "vysnít si"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "keksiä"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "luoda tyhjästä"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "inventer"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "figurar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "imaxinar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "inventar"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "erträumen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "sich ausmalen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "sich ausdenken"
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"word": "zusammenspinnen"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "finne på"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "wyśnić"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "zmyślić"
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"roman": "výdumatʹ",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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],
"word": "вы́думать"
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"roman": "vydúmyvatʹ",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"word": "выду́мывать"
}
]
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"word": "dream up"
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"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1999, John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill, editors, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, →ISBN:",
"text": "Since he had no way of returning to his homeland, and since remembering it made him suffer, he dreamed up a homeland he'd never had, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "2010, Christopher Nolan, Inception (motion picture), spoken by Fischer (Cillian Murphy):",
"text": "Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?",
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "vysnít si"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "keksiä"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "luoda tyhjästä"
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "figurar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "imaxinar"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "erträumen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "sich ausmalen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "sich ausdenken"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"tags": [
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"word": "zusammenspinnen"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "finne på"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "wyśnić"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"word": "zmyślić"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výdumatʹ",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вы́думать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vydúmyvatʹ",
"sense": "have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, invent something unreal",
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"imperfective"
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"word": "выду́мывать"
}
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"word": "dream up"
}
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