fabulate

[ fab-yuh-leyt ]

verb (used without object)

, fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing.

1. to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
2. to relate an event as a fable.

Other Words From

• fabu·lation noun
• fabu·lator noun

Example Sentences

People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have desire to fabulate.

From Project Gutenberg