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fabulate Related to fabulate: salvable, gratulate, aligned, vermiculated, undulatedfab·u·late F0002600 (făb′yə-lāt′)intr.v. fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing, fab·u·lates To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those featuring a strong element of fantasy: "a land which ... had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling" (Lawrence Durrell). [Latin fābulārī, fābulāt-, to talk, from fābula, tale, talk; see fable.] fab′u·la′tion n.fab′u·la′tor n.fabulate (ˈfæbjʊˌleɪt) vb (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) to invent (fables or stories) |