dream up

verb

1. tr, adverb to invent by ingenuity and imagination

   to dream up an excuse for leaving

Idioms and Phrases

Invent, concoct, as in Count on her to dream up some explanation for her absence . This expression replaced the somewhat earlier dream out . [c. 1940]

Example Sentences

Science imitates nature as researchers dream up robotic dogs, cheetahs, sharks and even cockroaches.

From The Daily Beast

The joke—a corny one— was more like a stunt that high school kids would dream up, and that was the point of it.

From The Daily Beast

I mean, it sounds like something that Homer Simpson might dream up.

From The Daily Beast

Who on Vitter's staff got paid a taxpayer-funded salary to sit around and dream up 653 questions?

From The Daily Beast

When he and Mazzei dream up a new design, they can produce a sample in the factory connected to their office.

From The Daily Beast

I didn't do it, and I can beat any case that half-assed ex-ambulance-chaser, Farnsworth, could dream up against me.

From Project Gutenberg

Leave it to Chahda to dream up something like that, Rick thought.

From Project Gutenberg

An actual world to match whatever kind of world you can dream up, let's say.

From Project Gutenberg

Let's sleep on it and see if we can't dream up something by tomorrow morning that'll really wow them.

From Project Gutenberg

Why she would look so provocative, so enchanting, so devastating, whatever other words you cared to dream up.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• contrive
• devise
• hatch
• invent