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confabulate

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con⋅fab⋅u⋅late

  [kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt]
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–verb (used without object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to converse informally; chat.
2. Psychiatry. to engage in confabulation.
Origin:
1605–15; < L confābulātus (ptp. of confābulārī to talk together), equiv. to con- con- + fābul(a) conversation (see fable ) + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
con⋅fab⋅u⋅la⋅tor, noun
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con·fab·u·late   (kən-fāb'yə-lāt')   
intr.v.   con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing, con·fab·u·lates

  1. To talk casually; chat.

  2. Psychology To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.


[Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk (from fābula, conversation; see fable).]
con·fab'u·la'tion n., con·fab'u·la'tor n., con·fab'u·la·to'ry (-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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