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Antonyms for fabricate
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : fab-ri-keyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪt |
Definition of fabricate
Origin :- mid-15c., "to fashion, make, build," from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricare "make, construct, fashion, build," from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of "to tell a lie," etc., it is recorded by 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.
- verb manufacture
- verb falsify, make up a story
- That the spy will fabricate his information is a mere commonplace.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Who forged the lie could fabricate this too:— But hold, it is ingeniously done.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 » by Various
- What few of the prints I saw yesterday will fabricate, and the fabrications will work.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Why not fabricate her own raw silk, and send it to market ready for wear?
- Extract from : « East of Suez » by Frederic Courtland Penfield
- Of course he was compelled to fabricate a statement in reply.
- Extract from : « Nero » by Jacob Abbott
- Workers separate the product from the earth, transport it, refine it, fabricate it.
- Extract from : « The American Empire » by Scott Nearing
- He contrived, with some oil and the soot of his lamp, to fabricate a sort of ink.
- Extract from : « Lord Montagu's Page » by G. P. R. James
- If any man could fabricate them, it was Livius, and Plutarch may have taken them from him.
- Extract from : « Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV » by Aubrey Stewart
- It is the place in which I fabricate all my verse in summer time.
- Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
- The next step was to get impressions and fabricate false keys.
- Extract from : « The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 » by Arthur Griffiths
Synonyms for fabricate
- assemble
- brainstorm
- build
- cobble up
- coin
- compose
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- counterfeit
- create
- devise
- dream up
- erect
- fake
- fashion
- feign
- fib
- fit together
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- fudge
- head trip
- invent
- jive
- join
- knock together
- lie
- make
- make like
- make up
- misrepresent
- mix
- organize
- piece together
- prefab
- pretend
- prevaricate
- produce
- put together
- shape
- structure
- think up
- throw together
- throw up
- trump up
- turn out
- whip up
- whomp up
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