Fabricate
['fæbrɪkeɪt] or ['fæbrɪket]
Definition
(v. t.) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
(v. t.) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
(v. t.) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Typist: Merritt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Frame, construct, build.[2]. Manufacture, make.[3]. Invent, feign, forge, coin.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Construct, make, form, forge, invent, falsify, manufacture, produce, frame,devise, coin, misrepresent
ANT:Demolish, tear, spoil, lacerate, dismember, destroy, narrate, copy, represent,portray, repeat
Inputed by Brice
Definition
v.t. to put together by art and labour: to manufacture: to produce: to devise falsely.—n. Fabricā′tion construction: manufacture: that which is fabricated or invented: a story: a falsehood.—adj. Fab′ricative.—n. Fab′ricator.
Edited by Clio
Examples
- For politics is an interest of men--a tool which they fabricate and use--and no comment has much value if it tries to get along without mankind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The historians have seen fit to fabricate a quite impossible last dying speech for him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to oppose his system. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Murdoch