[in-vent] 
| 1. | to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. |
| 2. | to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. |
| 3. | to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses. |
| 4. | Archaic. to come upon; find. |
| in·vent (ĭn-věnt') tr.v. in·vent·ed, in·vent·ing, in·vents
[Latin invenīre, invent-, to find : in-, on, upon; see in-2 + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.] in·vent'i·ble adj., in·ven'tor n. |
