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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
  2. v. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a mystery story.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To digest.
  2. To purify or sublime; refine by removing the gross or extraneous matter.
  3. To ripen; develop.
  4. To combine and prepare the materials of, as in cookery; hence, to get up, devise, plan, contrive, plot, etc.: as, to concoct a dinner or a bowl of punch; to concoct a scheme or a conspiracy.
  5. To mature; ripen.
  6. To digest.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
  2. v. to contrive something using skill or ingenuity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
  2. v. obsolete To purify or refine chemically.
  3. v. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients.
  4. v. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
  5. v. obsolete To mature or perfect; to ripen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. devise or invent
  2. v. make a concoction (of) by mixing
  3. v. invent.
  4. v. prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

Etymologies

  1. Latin concoquere, concoct-, to boil together : com-, com- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. devise
  1. contrive
  1. plan
  1. plot
  1. ripen
  1. prepare
  1. invent
  1. brew
  1. play

hypernyms (15)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. mingle
  2. commix
  3. amalgamate
  1. unify
  2. mix
  3. makeup
  1. manufacture
  2. invent
  3. cook up
  1. fabricate
  2. cook
  3. fix
  1. prepare
  2. ready
  3. make

rhymes (16)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. blocked
  2. clocked
  3. cocked
  1. docked
  2. flocked
  3. knocked
  1. locked
  2. mocked
  3. overstocked
  1. pocked
  2. restocked
  3. rocked
  1. shocked
  2. socked
  3. stocked
  1. unlocked

reverse dictionary (15)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fabricate
  2. concoct
  3. decoct
  1. cook
  2. hatch
  3. brew
  1. dream
  2. manufacture
  3. vamp
  1. arrange
  2. contrive
  3. devise
  1. meditate
  2. mingle
  3. plot

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