fabricate

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  1. transitive verb To make; create.
  2. transitive verb To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: fabricate small boats.
  3. transitive verb To concoct in order to deceive: fabricated an excuse.

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  • I do believe the only disease she didn't fabricate was the plague, and only because she didn't think of it But he didn't want you for the longest time. —  Garwood, Julie - Rebellious Desire
  • His day and fame passed, I suppose he did what he knew how to do best-fabricate scenarios. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Entertainment Weekly blog post, "Bachelor" host Chris Harrison insisted producers did not and would not did not fabricate or pre-plan the shocking ending. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Together the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize and model nanoscale materials, and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • "It's not that people set out to fabricate," John Llewellyn said. —  Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English fabricaten, from Latin fabricārī, fabricāt-, to make, from fabrica, craft; see fabric.

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  1. from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricari (later Italian fabbricare = Spanish Portuguese fabricar = Provencal fabregar = French fabriquer = Dutch fabriceren = German fabrizieren = Danish fabrikere = Swedish fabricera), make, construct, frame, forge, build, etc., from fabrica, a fabric, building, etc.: see fabric. See also forge, v., ult. from Latin fabricari.
 

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/ˈfæbrɪkeɪt/
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