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fabricate

[ fab-ri-keyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing.

to make by art or skill and labor; construct:
The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
to make by assembling parts or sections.
to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).
to fake; forge (a document, signature, etc.).

fabricate

/ ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt /

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin fabricātus “made,” past participle of fabricāre; fabric, -ate ¹

C15: from Latin fabricāre to build, make, from fabrica workshop; see fabric

He could fabricate myths that did not seem manufactured but felt real enough to explain the mysteries of your own existence.

She was then publicly named and forced to take part in a press conference, saying she had been bribed to fabricate the claim.

The samples for his fall 2009 collection alone cost about $1 million to fabricate.

To fabricate such a picture is the exact office of Imagination, and is its best definition.

Dr Johnson regarded the work as one “to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.”

Should this at any time happen, how easy would it be to fabricate pretenses of approaching danger!

Galusha was at that moment endeavoring to fabricate a story of his own, one which he might tell Miss Phipps.

Scott first began to fabricate occasional mottoes for his chapters during the composition of The Antiquary in 1816.

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