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Definition of Fabricate
1. Verb. Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts. "He manufactured a popular cereal"
Specialized synonyms: Mass-produce, Raft
Generic synonyms: Make
Derivative terms: Fabrication, Fabrication, Fabrication, Manufacture, Manufacture, Manufacturer, Manufacturer
2. Verb. Make up something artificial or untrue.
Generic synonyms: Concoct, Dream Up, Hatch, Think Of, Think Up
Specialized synonyms: Mythologise, Mythologize, Confabulate, Concoct, Trump Up, Spin, Vamp, Vamp Up
Derivative terms: Fabrication, Fabrication, Fabricator, Invention
Definition of Fabricate
1. v. t. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
Definition of Fabricate
1. Verb. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate computer chips. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) (cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fabricate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fabricate
Literary usage of Fabricate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"Where an act made it an offence for any one to " fabricate " a voting paper, ...
"'fabricate'implies fraud or falsehood, a false or fraudulent concoction, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"... one of the two specimens silence, that he had himself fabricate ^^^ ^ ^ Which
I procured, and that it t no t ^.^ to ^asl,e to acquire the patina ..."
3. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"... and charged the defendants with conspiring to fabricate a great number of
other shares in addition to the *1981 ""'^ -*-'"0 *and it appeared that the ..."
4. The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the by Richard Robert Madden (1867)
"He may fabricate lies upon lies, for us, against the Duchess Dowager of Leinster
and other elevated characters, but is wholly unable to substantiate his ..."
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