fabricate
verb
1 fabricate
Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts:
— The company fabricates plastic chairs.
synonyms: construct, manufacture.
Roget 161:
produce,
perform,
operate,
do,
make,
gar,
form,
construct,
fabricate,
frame,
contrive,
manufacture;
weave,
forge,
coin,
carve,
chisel;
build,
raise,
edify,
rear,
erect,
put together,
set up,
run up;
establish,
constitute,
compose,
organize,
institute;
achieve,
accomplish
etc.
(complete)
729.
flower,
bear fruit,
fructify,
teem,
ean†,
yean†,
farrow,
drop,
pup,
kitten,
kindle;
bear,
lay,
whelp,
bring forth,
give birth to,
lie in,
be brought to bed of,
evolve,
pullulate,
usher into the world.
make productive
etc.
168;
create;
beget,
get,
generate,
fecundate,
impregnate;
procreate,
progenerate†,
propagate;
engender;
bring into being,
call into being,
bring into existence;
breed,
hatch,
develop,
bring up.
induce,
superinduce;
suscitate†;
cause
etc.
153;
acquire
etc.
775.
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Dutch: fabriceren
2 fabricate
Concoct something artificial or untrue.
synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture.
Roget 515:
imagine,
fancy,
conceive;
idealize,
realize;
dream,
dream of,
dream up;
give to airy nothing a local habitation and a give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name"
[Midsummer Night's Dream].
create,
originate,
devise,
invent,
coin,
fabricate;
improvise,
strike out something new.
set one's wits to work;
strain one's invention,
crack one's invention;
rack one's brains,
ransack one's brains,
cudgel one's brains;
excogitate†;
brainstorm.
give play,
give the reins,
give a loose to the imagination,
give fancy;
indulge in reverie.
visualize,
envision,
conjure up a vision;
fancy oneself,
represent oneself,
picture,
picture-oneself,
figure to oneself;
vorstellen [G.].
float in the mind;
suggest itself
etc.
(thought)
451.
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Roget 544:
be false
etc.
adj.,
be a liar
etc.
548;
speak falsely
etc.
adv.;
tell a lie
etc.
546;
lie,
fib;
lie like a trooper;
swear false,
forswear,
perjure oneself,
bear false witness.
misstate,
misquote,
miscite†,
misreport,
misrepresent;
belie,
falsify,
pervert,
distort;
put a false construction upon
etc.
(misinterpret);
prevaricate,
equivocate,
quibble;
palter,
palter to the understanding;
repondre en Normand [Fr.];
trim,
shuffle,
fence,
mince the truth,
beat about the bush,
blow hot and cold,
play fast and loose.
garble,
gloss over,
disguise,
give a color to;
give a gloss,
put a gloss,
put false coloring upon;
color,
varnish,
cook,
dress up,
embroider;
varnish right and puzzle wrong;
exaggerate
etc.
549;
blague†.
invent,
fabricate;
trump up,
get up;
force,
fake,
hatch,
concoct;
romance
etc.
(imagine)
515;
cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble,
dissimulate;
feign,
assume,
put on,
pretend,
make believe;
play possum;
play false,
play a double game;
coquet;
act a part,
play a part;
affect
etc.
855;
simulate,
pass off for;
counterfeit,
sham,
make a show of;
malinger;
say the grapes are sour.
cant,
play the hypocrite,
sham Abraham,
faire pattes de velours,
put on the mask,
clean the outside of the platter,
lie like a conjuror;
hand out false colors,
hold out false colors,
sail under false colors;
commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"
[Macbeth];
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.];
deceive
etc.
545.
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Moby thesaurus: assemble, beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, build up, call into being, cast, coin, combine, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, consist of, constitute, construct, contrive, cook, cook up, counterfeit, create, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, elaborate, embody, engender, enter into, erect, evolve, experience imaginatively, extrude, fake, falsify, fancy, fantasize, fashion, feign, fictionalize, forge, form, formulate, frame, fudge, fudge together, generate, get up, give being to, give rise to, go into, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, improvise, incorporate, indite, invent, join, make, make do with, make up, manufacture, mature, merge in, mint, mix, mold, organize, originate, patch together, piece together, plan, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, spawn, strike out, structure, suppose, synthesize, think out, think up, trump up, turn out, unite in, whomp up, write ... show more.
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