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fab⋅u⋅late

  [fab-yuh-leyt]
–verb (used without object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
2. to relate an event as a fable.
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fab·u·late     (fāb'yə-lāt')  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing, fab·u·lates
To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play: "a land which . . . had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling" (Lawrence Durrell).


[Latin fābulārī, fābulāt-, to talk, from fābula, tale, talk; see fable.]

fab'u·la'tion n., fab'u·la'tor n.
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