fabricate
[fab-ri-keyt]
- 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.).
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Origin of fabricate
Synonym study
1. See manufacture.
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Contemporary Examples
Ergo if the finest minds at Breitbart can't find him, Dunham's story must be fabricated.
The head of the prison says Figueroa fabricated the story as a ploy to get the Dutchman transferred.
It is 32 pages long and looks like it was fabricated during the Civil War.
Female video game developers like Zoe Quinn have been torn apart and harassed for fabricated scandals.
Orlando, Florida, is best known as the epicenter of fabricated family fun.
Historical Examples
He fabricated some excuse or other, and the excuse was accepted, to his great relief.
Cap'n Dan's DaughterJoseph C. Lincoln
Hephzy had already given them some excuse, fabricated on the spur of the moment.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
Those metal cubes had been fabricated about three years previously.
Hall of MirrorsFredric Brown
They were looking for the plant that fabricated the elements for Merlin, weren't they?
The Cosmic ComputerHenry Beam Piper
Their piercing war-whoops were blended with the loud beatings of a kind of drum which they had fabricated.
fabricate
- to make, build, or construct
- to devise, invent, or concoct (a story, lie, etc)
- to fake or forge
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin fabricāre to build, make, from fabrica workshop; see fabric
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Word Origin and History for fabricated
fabricate
v.
mid-15c., "to fashion, make, build," from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricare "make, construct, fashion, build," from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of "to tell a lie," etc., it is recorded by 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.
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