Synonyms for fabricate


Grammar : Verb
Spell : fab-ri-keyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæb rɪˌkeɪt

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for fabricate

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