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come up with

come up with verb: to manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.

Verb

come up with (third-person singular simple present comes up with, present participle coming up with, simple past came up with, past participle come up with)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
    • How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?
    • Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To reach or overtake.
    Synonyms:
    catch up with
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with.
    • He came up with a bag of rice, having it carried it up from downstairs.

come up with meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Arabic

come up with in Bengali

উদ্ভাবন, তৈরি, পৌঁছানো, অতিক্রম করা

come up with in Malayalam

produce, devise, think up
ഉണ്ടാക്കുക, നിർമ്മിക്കുക, ഉൽപ്പാദിപ്പിക്കുക, ആവിഷ്കരിക്കുക, വാദിക്കുക, എത്തുക

come up with in Arabic

to invent, create
جَاءَ بِـ jāʔa bi-, أَتَى بِـ ʔatā bi-

Examples of come up with in a sentence

  • And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
  • In 2001, she was legally declared dead, but police and private investigators have continued to come up with compelling leads.2026 August 10, Nicholas Muhoro, “Jodi Huisentruit, 27, Vanished From Her Apartment Parking Lot in 1995. Police Found Signs of a Struggle”...

Synonyms of come up with

  • catch up with

Forms of come up with

third-person singular presentcomes up with
present participlecoming up with
pastcame up with
past participlecome up with

Words formed from come up with

Questions about come up with

What does come up with mean?
Come up with means to manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
What is come up with in Bengali?
Come up with in Bengali is উদ্ভাবন, তৈরি, পৌঁছানো. See Come up with meaning in Bengali.
How do you use come up with in a sentence?
And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
What part of speech is come up with?
Come up with is a verb.
What is the past tense of come up with?
The past tense of come up with is came up with.

Words near come up with in the dictionary

  1. come up smelling like a rose
  2. come up smelling of roses
  3. come up snake eyes
  4. come up to
  5. come up trumps
  6. come up with
  7. come up with snake eyes
  8. come up with the goods
  9. come up with the rations
  10. come upon
  11. come upon the parish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come up with (page history and authors); come up with (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); come up with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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