fabricateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪt/us/ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪt/to invent or produce something false in order to deceive someone:
He was late, so he fabricated an excuse to avoid trouble.
He claims that the police fabricated evidence against him.
especially US to produce a product, especially in an industrial process:
The company fabricates and sells steel.
An electronic circuit is fabricated on a silicon wafer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- hypocrisy
- make sth up
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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fabrication
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌfæb.rɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌfæb.rəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
The evidence he gave in court was a complete fabrication.
fabricator
noun [ C ] uk/ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪ.tər//ˈfæb.rɪ.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
especially US
My father was a metal fabricator.