fabulate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
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to relate an event as a fable.
Other Word Forms
- fabulation noun
- fabulator noun
Example Sentences
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Certainly, Henry fabulated and shaped various details and incidents.
From The New Yorker
Later stages are at times accompanied by inclination to fabulate, loss of judgment, disorientation, narrowing of the external interests, episodes of confusion and hallucinatory delirium.
From Project Gutenberg
People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have ``desire to fabulate.''
From Project Gutenberg
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