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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fabricate
    v 1: put together out of artificial or natural components or
         parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They
         manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"
         [syn: manufacture, fabricate, construct]
    2: make up something artificial or untrue [syn: fabricate,
       manufacture, cook up, make up, invent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of
   fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica.
   See Fabric, Farge.]
   1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to
      construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as,
      to fabricate woolens.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to
      fabricate a lie or story.
      [1913 Webster]

            Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation
            to prevailing usages.                 --Paley.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for fabricate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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