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verb. create, invent. 1  brainstorm. 2  compose. 3  conceive. 4  contrive. 5  counterfeit. 6  dream up. 7  fabricate. 8  forge. 9  formulate. 10  frame. 11  head trip. 12  make up. 13  make up off the top of one's head. 14  manufacture. 15  mint. 16  mold. 17  originate. 18  spark. 19  spitball. 20  stamp. 21  strike. 22  think up. 23  trump up.
For other uses, see Brainstorm (disambiguation). Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination.