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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fabrication
    n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn:
         fabrication, fiction, fable]
    2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication,
       fictionalization, fictionalisation]
    3: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials;
       "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an
       improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing
       is vital to Great Britain" [syn: fabrication,
       manufacture, manufacturing]
    4: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
       [syn: fabrication, assembly] [ant: disassembly,
       dismantlement, dismantling]
    5: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [syn: lying,
       prevarication, fabrication]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fabrication \Fab`ri*ca"tion\, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F.
   fabrication.]
   1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing;
      construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a
      bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is
      doubtless a fabrication.

   Syn: See Fiction.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Fabrication:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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