fabricate
pronunciation
How to pronounce fabricate in British English:
UK [ˈfæbrɪkeɪt]
How to pronounce fabricate in American English:
US [ˈfæbrɪkeɪt]
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- Verb:
- put together out of components or parts
- make up something artificial or untrue
Word Origin
- fabricate (v.)
- mid-15c., "to fashion, make, build," from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricare "to make, construct, fashion, build," from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of "tell a lie (etc.)," it is recorded by 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.
Example
- 1. Whether or not you choose to find or fabricate your water droplets it can take a bit of effort to get right .
- 2. Kreuger didn 't merely fabricate returns .
- 3. The meta-analysis suggested that 14 % of researchers in the underlying studies had seen their colleagues fabricate , falsify , alter or modify data .
- 4. For example , factual newspaper accounts of significant events are likely to be accurate , because reporters normally do not fabricate news .
- 5. Kouwenhoven admits that this is still some way off ; first we 'll have to fabricate quantum dots from proven non-toxic materials , he says .