cooked up

Main Entry:
cook up
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: devise
Synonyms: arrange, concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, falsify, formulate, frame, hatch, improvise, invent, make up, plan, plot, prepare, scheme, vamp
Main Entry: framed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: arranged beforehand
Synonyms: cooked up, faked, fixed*, planted, set up*, trumped up
Main Entry: cause
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring into being; bring about
Synonyms: be at the bottom of, begin, brainstorm*, break in, break the ice, breed, bring to pass, come out with, compel, cook up, create, dream up, effect, elicit, engender, evoke, fire up, generate, get things rolling, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, introduce, kickoff, kindle, lead to, let, make, make up, motivate, muster, occasion, open, originate, precipitate, produce, provoke, result in, revert, secure, sow the seeds, start the ball rolling, think up, work up
Main Entry: color
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: distort, exaggerate
Synonyms: angle*, belie, cook up, disguise, doctor*, embroider, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, gloss over, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp
Notes: color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color
Antonyms: be truthful, represent
Main Entry: compose
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create writing, artwork, or music
Synonyms: author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, fudge together, ghost*, ghostwrite, imagine, indite, invent, knock off, knock out, make up, note down, orchestrate, originate, pen, poetize, produce, push pencil, put down, put pen to paper, score, scribble, script, set type, set up, time, turn out, whip up, write
Notes: compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts'
Main Entry: conceive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create
Synonyms: become pregnant, brainstorm, cogitate, consider, contrive, cook up, depicture, design, develop, devise, dream up, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, form, formulate, head trip, image, imagine, make up, meditate, originate, ponder, produce, project, purpose, realize, ruminate, spark, speculate, spitball, think up, trump up, visualize
Antonyms: abort, destroy
Main Entry: concoct
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: formulate, think up
Synonyms: ad lib, batch, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prefab, prepare, project, scheme, slap together, throw together, vamp
Main Entry: connive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plot, scheme
Synonyms: angle, be in cahoots with, cabal, cogitate, collude, conspire, contrive, cook up, devise, diddle, finagle, frame, frame up, intrigue, machinate, operate, promote, wangle, wire, work hand in glove
Notes: one connives at something but conspires with somebody
Main Entry: conspire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plot, scheme with someone
Synonyms: be in cahoots, cabal, cogitate, collogue, collude, confederate, connive, contrive, cook up, cooperate, devise, get in bed with, hatch, intrigue, machinate, maneuver, operate, promote, put out a contract, wangle, wire, work something out
Notes: one connives at something but conspires with somebody
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