think up (third-person singular simple present thinks up, present participle thinking up, simple past and past participle thought up)
- (idiomatic) To create in one’s mind; to invent.
I can think up plenty of excuses not to go, but we really should attend.
create in one's mind; invent
- Bulgarian: измислям (bg) (izmisljam)
- Catalan: idear (ca)
- Dutch: bedenken (nl), verzinnen (nl)
- Esperanto: elpensi
- Italian: ideare (it), inventare (it)
- Norwegian: finne på
- Polish: wymyślać (pl) impf, wymyślić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: imaginar (pt)
- Russian: приду́мывать (ru) impf (pridúmyvatʹ), приду́мать (ru) pf (pridúmatʹ); выду́мывать (ru) impf (vydúmyvatʹ), вы́думать (ru) pf (výdumatʹ)
- Spanish: imaginar (es)
- Swedish: hitta på (sv)
- Ukrainian: вига́дувати impf (vyháduvaty), ви́гадати pf (výhadaty), виду́мувати impf (vydúmuvaty), ви́думати pf (výdumaty), приду́мувати impf (prydúmuvaty), приду́мати pf (prydúmaty)
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