Synonyms for drum up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : druhm

Phonetic Transcription : drʌm

Définition of drum up

Origin : 1540s, probably from Middle Dutch tromme "drum," common Germanic (cf. German Trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma), probably of imitative origin. Not common before 1570s. Slightly older, and more common at first, was drumslade, apparently from Dutch or Low German trommelslag. Machinery sense attested from 1740, from similarity of shape.

verb gather support for something

Example sentences :

Let Johnson send his little Boswell out to drum up information.
Extract from : « A House-Boat on the Styx » by John Kendrick Bangs

So you're not going back to the West Coast to drum up cargo for us?
Extract from : « Thrice Armed » by Harold Bindloss

Professor, you seem to have about everything; can you drum up a cigar and a match?
Extract from : « Miss Caprice » by St. George Rathborne

But he could not drum up even a dutiful "Oh, she doesn't really need you, does she?"
Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis

Almagro was again left behind at Panama to try to drum up recruits.
Extract from : « The Spanish Pioneers » by Charles F. Lummis

Arrow Head had been left behind to "drum up" a few stragglers, but was now ready to go forward with the redmen under him.
Extract from : « Marching on Niagara » by Edward Stratemeyer

"We will not drum up any," he said, as he halted his boat just inside the little circle.
Extract from : « The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters » by Wilmer M. Ely

He gets all that people leave in their dishes for helping to drum up a crowd of patrons.
Extract from : « Asa Holmes » by Annie Fellows Johnston

George was for sending him out into the rural districts to drum up trade, and this was eventually done.
Extract from : « The Financier » by Theodore Dreiser

His stock in trade is religion, and hes got just as much right to show goods and try to drum up trade as the next one, aint he?
Extract from : « The Heart of Canyon Pass » by Thomas K. Holmes

Antonyms for drum up

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