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ausdenken — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • concoct verb To make something, especially food or a drink, by combining different ingredients.
  • devise verb To work out or invent a plan, method, or system through careful thought.
  • feign verb To pretend to feel or have something that isn't real.
  • invent verb To create or design something new that didn't exist before.

Senses

ausdenken is used for these senses in English:

  • come up with (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
  • concoct (figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
  • devise (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
  • feign To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
  • invent To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
  • make up To invent, to imagine, to concoct

concoct — full definition

  1. verb To make something, especially food or a drink, by combining different ingredients.
  2. verb To invent a story, plan, or excuse, often a dishonest one.

devise — full definition

  1. verb To work out or invent a plan, method, or system through careful thought.
  2. verb To leave real estate to someone in a will.

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