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[ fab-ri-keyt ] / ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR fabricate ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing.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.). Origin of fabricate1400–50; late Middle English <Latin fabricātus made, past participle of fabricāre.See fabric, -ate1 synonym study for fabricate1. See manufacture. OTHER WORDS FROM fabricatefab·ri·ca·tive, adjectivefab·ri·ca·tor, nounqua·si-fab·ri·cat·ed, adjectiveun·fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective well-fab·ri·cat·ed, adjective Words nearby fabricateFablon, Fabre, fabric, fabricable, fabricant, fabricate, fabrication, Fabricius, fabric softener, Fabricus ab Aquapendente, Fabrikoid Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fabricateHe could fabricate myths that did not seem manufactured but felt real enough to explain the mysteries of your own existence. García Márquez Showed Us How Great Fiction Could Be|Malcolm Jones|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST She was then publicly named and forced to take part in a press conference, saying she had been bribed to fabricate the claim. Somalia Jails Woman and Journalist Over Soldier Rape Claims|Laila Ali|February 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST The samples for his fall 2009 collection alone cost about $1 million to fabricate. Redesigning Their Lives|Renata Espinosa|June 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST The lone trader or landholder unsupported by a partnership with law could not fabricate money. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I|Myers Gustavus
If you omit one necessary detail, if you fabricate in one particular, I shall know it. Out of a Labyrinth|Lawrence L. Lynch When the iron is worn down, they fabricate it into points for their arrows and pikes. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793|Alexander Mackenzie Thus he cut short all power to fabricate a case of manslaughter. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2)|A Sexton of the Old School The historians have seen fit to fabricate a quite impossible last dying speech for him. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
British Dictionary definitions for fabricate
verb (tr)to make, build, or construct to devise, invent, or concoct (a story, lie, etc) to fake or forge Derived forms of fabricatefabrication, nounfabricative, adjectivefabricator, nounWord Origin for fabricateC15: from Latin fabricāre to build, make, from fabrica workshop; see fabric Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fabricatedream up, formulate, contrive, construct, invent, assemble, concoct, fake, misrepresent, fudge, counterfeit, trump up, compose, join, form, mix, devise, make, produce, brainstorm |