| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manufacture |
Synonyms: |
assemble, brainstorm, build, cobble up, compose, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, create, devise, dream up, erect, fashion, fit together, form, formulate, frame, head trip, invent, join, knock together, make, make up, mix, organize, piece together, prefab, produce, put together, shape, structure, think up, throw together, throw up, turn out, whip up, whomp up |
Antonyms: |
break, demolish, destroy, ruin, wreck |
| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | falsify, make up a story |
Synonyms: |
coin, concoct, contrive, counterfeit, devise, fake, feign, fib, forge, form, fudge, invent, jive, lie, make like, misrepresent, pretend, prevaricate, trump up |
Antonyms: |
tell truth |
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake; imitation |
Synonyms: |
bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, phony*, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural, unreal |
Antonyms: |
genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | assemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put together |
Synonyms: |
compile, connect, construct, contrive, erect, fabricate, fashion, fit, form, join, make, manufacture, model, mold, piece together, produce, set up, shape, unite, weld |
Antonyms: |
divide, separate, take apart |
| Main Entry: | build |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | construct structure |
Synonyms: |
assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up |
| Notes: | billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct |
Antonyms: |
demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down |
| Main Entry: | coin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, invent |
Synonyms: |
brainstorm*, compose, conceive, contrive, counterfeit, dream up, fabricate, forge, formulate, frame, head trip, make up, make up off the top of one's head, manufacture, mint, mold, originate, spark, spitball, stamp, strike, think up, trump up |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
Synonyms: |
author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, fudge together, ghost*, ghostwrite, imagine, indite, invent, knock off, knock out, make up, note down, orchestrate, originate, pen, poetize, produce, push pencil, put down, put pen to paper, score, scribble, script, set type, set up, time, turn out, whip up, write |
| Main Entry: | concoct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate, think up |
Synonyms: |
ad lib, batch, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prefab, prepare, project, scheme, slap together, throw together, vamp |
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
Synonyms: |
build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
Antonyms: |
annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
| Main Entry: | contrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | invent, design |
Synonyms: |
come up with, concoct, construct, cook up, create, devise, dream up, engineer, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame*, handle, hatch, improvise, make, make up*, manipulate, manufacture, move, plan, plot, project, rig, scheme, throw together, trump up, vamp, wangle, whip up |
Antonyms: |
disorganize |