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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | concoct, create fiction, equivocate, fabricate, falsify, invent, jive, make up, palter, plant, prevaricate, promote, shovel, speak with forked tongue, stretch the truth, tell a little white lie, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, bring forth, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, design, devise, dream up, engender, formulate, generate, get up, give birth, incubate, induce, invent, lay eggs, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, spitball, think up, throw together, trump up, whip up, work up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fabricate |
| Synonyms: | concoct, conjure up, create out of thin air, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up, vamp |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | machinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | maneuver, plot |
| Synonyms: | cogitate, collude, come up with, connive, conspire, contrive, design, devise, engineer, finagle, hatch, intrigue, invent, plan, play games, promote, pull strings, scheme, trump up, wangle |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | make up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, blend, coin, combine, compose, compound, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, fabricate, fabulize, fake it, fashion, fictionalize, fix, formulate, frame, fuse, hatch, improv, improvise, invent, join, knock off, make, meld, merge, mingle, mix, originate, play by ear, prepare, pretend, put together, ready, storify, trump up, whip up, wing it, write |
| Antonyms: | be real, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | manufacture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concoct, invent |
| Synonyms: | contrive, cook up, create, devise, fabricate, hatch, make up, produce, think up, trump up |
| Main Entry: | misrepresent/misquote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie, distort |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, angle, beard, belie, build up, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, give snow job, mangle, mask, miscolor, misinterpret, misreport, misstate, overdraw, overstate, palter, pervert, phony up, pirate*, prevaricate, promote, puff, skew, slant, snow*, spread it on, stretch, take out of context, throw a curve, trump up, twist, warp |
| Antonyms: | be forthright, be honest, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange for certain outcome |
| Synonyms: | doctor, engineer, fake, falsify, fiddle with, fix, gerrymander, juggle, manipulate, tamper with, trump up |
| Notes: | a ship's rig is the arrangement of masts, sails, etc.; the rigging is the system of ropes or chains supporting these |
| Main Entry: | misrepresent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, angle, beard, belie, blarney, blow smoke, build up, cheese, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, mangle, mask, miscolor, misinterpret, misreport, misstate, overdraw, overstate, palter, pervert, phony up, pirate, prevaricate, promote, puff, skew, slant, snow, stretch, trump up, twist, warp |
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