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fabricate

[ fab-ri-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

, fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·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.).


fabricate

/ ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt /

verb

  1. to make, build, or construct
  2. to devise, invent, or concoct (a story, lie, etc)
  3. to fake or forge


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Derived Forms

  • ˌfabriˈcation, noun
  • ˈfabriˌcator, noun
  • ˈfabricative, adjective

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Other Words From

  • fab·ri·ca·tive adjective
  • fab·ri·ca·tor noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fabricate1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin fabricātus “made,” past participle of fabricāre; fabric, -ate 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fabricate1

C15: from Latin fabricāre to build, make, from fabrica workshop; see fabric

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Example Sentences

Booyer, a metal artist whose work is commissioned by Bass Pro Shop, said he had fabricated his friend’s cremation urn.

Malcolm insisted that she had not fabricated any quotes, but the jury, and a number of journalists, objected to her practice of rearranging and compressing quotations, and accused her of carelessness.

“The evidence is going to show that we are under the most vicious, lying, fabricating, fictitious, government you ever seen!”

Navalny marked his 45th birthday on Friday, while serving a more-than two-year prison sentence on charges international observers and his allies have said were fabricated as a way to silence him.

It just doesn’t make sense, and I believe that much of it is probably fabricated.

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He could fabricate myths that did not seem manufactured but felt real enough to explain the mysteries of your own existence.

She was then publicly named and forced to take part in a press conference, saying she had been bribed to fabricate the claim.

The samples for his fall 2009 collection alone cost about $1 million to fabricate.

To fabricate such a picture is the exact office of Imagination, and is its best definition.

Dr Johnson regarded the work as one “to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.”

Should this at any time happen, how easy would it be to fabricate pretenses of approaching danger!

Galusha was at that moment endeavoring to fabricate a story of his own, one which he might tell Miss Phipps.

Scott first began to fabricate occasional mottoes for his chapters during the composition of The Antiquary in 1816.

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