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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Examples from the Web for fabricator
Contemporary Examples
One of them even warned that he suspected Curveball was a fabricator who had created his story out of whole cloth.
Historical Examples
He moved aside, going to the other side of the group around the fabricator.
Alarm ClockEverett B. Cole
The trader and fabricator live in centers that we call cities.
Would a symbolist then signify a fabricator of masterpieces?
Very WomanRemy de Gourmont
Smith's versatility as a fabricator seems to give him a leading place in that respect in the record of mankind.
The Story of the MormonsWilliam Alexander Linn
What puzzled Philip was that this fabricator of "stories" for the newspaper should call himself a "realist."
That FortuneCharles Dudley Warner
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 fabricator
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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