"think up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-think up.ogg Forms: thinks up [present, singular, third-person], thinking up [participle, present], thought up [participle, past], thought up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|think<,,thought> up}} 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. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: come up with Translations (create in one's mind; invent): измислям (izmisljam) (Bulgarian), idear (Catalan), bedenken (Dutch), verzinnen (Dutch), elpensi (Esperanto), ideare (Italian), inventare (Italian), finne på (Norwegian), wymyślać [imperfective] (Polish), wymyślić [perfective] (Polish), imaginar (Portuguese), приду́мывать (pridúmyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), приду́мать (pridúmatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), выду́мывать (vydúmyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́думать (výdumatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), imaginar (Spanish), hitta på (Swedish), вига́дувати (vyháduvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), ви́гадати (výhadaty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), виду́мувати (vydúmuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), ви́думати (výdumaty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), приду́мувати (prydúmuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), приду́мати (prydúmaty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "create in one's mind; invent",
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