fabricate

From Latin fabricātus, perfect passive participle of fabricor, fabricō (“build, forge”), from fabrica (“a fabric, building, etc.”); see fabric and forge. Compare with French fabrique.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/

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fabricate (third-person singular simple present fabricates, present participle fabricating, simple past and past participle fabricated)

1. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

   to fabricate a bridge or ship

2. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.

   to fabricate computer chips

3. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

   to fabricate a lie or story

4. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

• confabulate, cook up, invent, make up, manufacture, trump up

• “fabricate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fabricate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

fabricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fabricō

fabricate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fabricar combined with te