TRUMP UP Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

trump up

verb

Definition of trump up

as in to devise

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination parents who were always trumping up little projects for their children to do around the house

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Recent Examples of trump up The funding that currently pays state law enforcement overtime to trump up charges against those suspected. — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026 Bass insisted the charges were trumped up. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 He was forced to flee the country in the months following the election, due to trumped up conspiracy and terrorism charges presented by the government that would have led to decades in prison. — Flora Charner, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026 The crimes with which she has been charged are trumped up and her arrest is a cynical ploy by the junta headed by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to cling onto power. — Kim Aris, Time, 7 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trump up

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Over the following weeks, the group of roughly 15 people spoke almost daily to trace the vulnerabilities to their common source and devise a fix.

— Harry Booth, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
With her knack for devising novel solutions to seemingly insoluble problems, no one was better suited for the job.

— Dean Robbins, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of devise

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Uganda has also unveiled plans for the Turkish firm Summa, which constructed one of its AFCON stadiums, to build a 15,000-seater indoor arena in Kampala.

— Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Brodeur and Lowndes agree that housing affordability is also tied to supply, and that more homes available to the middle class need to be constructed.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of construct

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After an uneasy initial meeting, the two women unleash a passion neither knew could exist, with Olivia concocting a way for Tamsin to move into the Madden home.

— Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
Gabardine, named after the world’s first breathable, waterproof fabric that Burberry created and used in its iconic trenchcoat, was concocted by Givaudan’s Nisrine Grillié and Yann Vasnier.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of concoct

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On the eve of the protests, pro-communist, anti-Israel groups are drumming up international publicity for the waterfront campaign.

— Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Fox wrote about meeting Stoltz and resolving any tension drummed up between them, 40 years after the role switched hands, in his own memoir, 2025’s Future Boy.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2026

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