| VERB | creation | fabricate, manufacture, construct | put together out of artificial or natural components or parts |
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| creation | fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent | make up something artificial or untrue |
| Sounds | fae'brahkey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Put together out of artificial or natural components or parts. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "the company fabricates plastic chairs" | |
| Synonyms | manufacture, construct | |
| Narrower | mass-produce | produce on a large scale |
| raft | make into a raft | |
| Broader | make | make by shaping or bringing together constituents |
| Spanish | construir, edificar, fabricar, manufacturar | |
| Catalan | construir, edificar, fabricar, manufacturar | |
| Nouns | fabrication | the act of making something (a product) from raw materials |
| fabrication | the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | |
| fabrication | the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | |
| Meaning | make up something artificial or untrue. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | manufacture, cook up, make up, invent | |
| Narrower | confabulate | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory |
| mythologize, mythologise | Construct a myth | |
| spin | make up a story | |
| trump up, concoct | invent | |
| vamp, vamp up | make up | |
| Broader | think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct | devise or invent / invent |
| Spanish | fabricar, inventar | |
| Catalan | fabricar, inventar | |
| Nouns | fabrication | writing in a fictional form |
| fabrication | a deliberately false / false or improbable account | |
| fabricator | someone who tells lies | |
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