fabricate

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fabricaten (“to fashion, make”), from Latin fabricātus, perfect active participle of fabricor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fabrica (“a fabric, building”) + -or (verb-forming suffix); see fabric and forge. Cognate with French fabriquer. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfæbrɪkeɪt/ IPA(key): /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfæbrəˌkeɪt/ Hyphenation: fab‧ri‧cate === Verb === fabricate (third-person singular simple present fabricates, present participle fabricating, simple past and past participle fabricated) (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build. Synonym: manufacture (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. Synonym: manufacture (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. Synonyms: confabulate, cook up, invent, make up, manufacture, trump up (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “fabricate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fabricate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Latin == === Verb === fabricāte second-person plural present active imperative of fabricō == Spanish == === Verb === fabricate second-person singular voseo imperative of fabricar combined with te