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verb (used with object)
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.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English invented (past participle) found, discovered (see -ed2) < Latin inventus, past participle of invenīre to encounter, come upon, find, equivalent to in- in-2 + ven(īre) to come + -tus past participle suffix
1425–75; late Middle English invented (past participle) found, discovered (see -ed2) < Latin inventus, past participle of invenīre to encounter, come upon, find, equivalent to in- in-2 + ven(īre) to come + -tus past participle suffix
Related forms
in·vent·i·ble, in·vent·a·ble, adjective
out·in·vent, verb (used with object)
pre·in·vent, verb (used with object)
self-in·vent·ed, adjective
un·in·vent·ed, adjective
EXPANDwell-in·vent·ed, adjective
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