Dream-up Definition

verb

To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal.

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. - Steven H. Gale: Encyclopedia of British Humorists.
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... - Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa.
I am not arguing that I can dream up any reality I like. - John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory.
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Dream-up Sentence Examples

  • There are custom contacts for just about any character you can dream up.

  • He fought crime with his cutting-edge car, KITT, which was decked out with every imaginable bit of technology the writers could dream up.

  • Halloween Express has practically any style lens that you can dream up.

  • Moore, frugal crafters can stock up on all the supplies they need to paint, stitch, bead, quilt, decorate, stamp, knit, scrapbook, or whatever else they dream up.

  • On a long car trip across upstate New York in 1994, Bezos followed his passion for systems engineering and attention to detail to dream up the concept for Amazon.

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