fabulate

[ fab-yuh-leyt ]

verb (used without object),fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing.
  1. to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.

  2. to relate an event as a fable.

Other words from fabulate

  • fab·u·la·tion, noun
  • fab·u·la·tor, noun

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How to use fabulate in a sentence

  • People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have desire to fabulate.

    Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross