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fab⋅ri⋅cate

  [fab-ri-keyt]
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–verb (used with object), -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
1. to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
2. to make by assembling parts or sections.
3. to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).
4. to fake; forge (a document, signature, etc.).
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L fabricātus made, ptp. of fabricāre. See fabric, -ate 1

Related forms:
fab⋅ri⋅ca⋅tive, adjective
fab⋅ri⋅ca⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. See manufacture.
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fab·ri·cate   (fāb'rĭ-kāt')   
tr.v.   fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates
  1. To make; create.
  2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: fabricate small boats.
  3. To concoct in order to deceive: fabricated an excuse.

[Middle English fabricaten, from Latin fabricārī, fabricāt-, to make, from fabrica, craft; see fabric.]
fab'ri·ca'tion n., fab'ri·ca'tor n.
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Fabricate

Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]

1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.

Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. --Paley.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : fabricate
Spanish: inventar,
German: erfinden,
Japanese: でっちあげる
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Main Entry: fab·ri·cate
Pronunciation: 'fa-br&-"kAt
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed; -cat·ing
transitive verb : to make up (as testimony) with an intent to deceive intransitive verb : to make something up with an intent to deceive fabricate —Gary Taylor>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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