fabricate
Do you like to construct mini airplanes from kits? Work on an assembly line? Piece together Ikea furniture? Then you certainly know how to fabricate, or to put together, things.
While fabricate might mean the physical act of construction, it can also mean constructing a falsehood. Watch out — those well versed in the art of fabrication might have an ulterior motive. In the movies, the bad cops sometimes fabricate evidence to make the good guy look guilty. When you tell the teacher the dog ate your homework, you’ve fabricated a pretty silly excuse. So if you’re going to fabricate the truth, get some better material!
Definitions of fabricate
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put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
“the company
fabricates plastic chairs”-
synonyms:
construct, manufacture-
types:
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mass-produce
produce on a large scale
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raft
make into a raft
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type of:
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make
make by shaping or bringing together constituents
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mass-produce
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make up something artificial or untrue
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synonyms:
cook up, invent, make up, manufacture-
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mythologise, mythologize
construct a myth
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confabulate
unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one’s memory
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concoct, trump up
invent
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spin
make up a story
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vamp, vamp up
make up
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