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    COOK UP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Concoct something artificial or untrueplay

    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)

    vamp; vamp up (make up)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Prepare or cook by mixing ingredientsplay

    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

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