fabricate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: fab=ri=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

fabricate, v. t. [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.].

•  To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.  [1913 Webster]
•  To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.  [1913 Webster]
•  To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.  [1913 Webster]

  "Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fabricate, v.tr.
1 construct or manufacture, esp. from prepared components.
2 invent or concoct (a story, evidence, etc.).
3 forge (a document).

Derivative

fabrication n. fabricator n.

Etymology

L fabricare fabricat- (as FABRIC)

THESAURUS

fabricate

assemble, beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, build up, call into being, cast, coin, combine, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, consist of, constitute, construct, contrive, cook, cook up, counterfeit, create, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, elaborate, embody, engender, enter into, erect, evolve, experience imaginatively, extrude, fake, falsify, fancy, fantasize, fashion, feign, fictionalize, forge, form, formulate, frame, fudge, fudge together, generate, get up, give being to, give rise to, go into, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, improvise, incorporate, indite, invent, join, make, make do with, make up, manufacture, mature, merge in, mint, mix, mold, organize, originate, patch together, piece together, plan, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, spawn, strike out, structure, suppose, synthesize, think out, think up, trump up, turn out, unite in, whomp up, write

ROGET THESAURUS

fabricate

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Imagination

VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.

Falsehood

VB be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.