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FABRICATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concoct something artificial or untrue

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "fabricate" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fabricate"):

mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)

confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)

concoct; trump up (invent)

spin (make up a story)

vamp; vamp up (make up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fabrication (writing in a fictional form)

fabrication (a deliberately false or improbable account)

fabricator (someone who tells lies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

Example:

He manufactured a popular cereal

Synonyms:

construct; fabricate; manufacture

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "fabricate" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fabricate"):

mass-produce (produce on a large scale)

raft (make into a raft)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

fabrication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

fabrication (the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery))

fabrication (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)

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