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Fabricated definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FABRICATED, pp. Framed; constructed; built; manufactured; invented; devised falsely; forged.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fabricate Fab"ri*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.] 1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages. --Paley.

Moby Thesaurus

assembled, built, cast, coined, conceived, concocted, constructed, cooked-up, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, discovered, extracted, fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned, fictional, fictitious, figmental, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, hatched, homemade, homespun, invented, legendary, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, made-up, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, minted, molded, mythical, new-minted, originated, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, put-up, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, shaped, smelted, trumped-up, well-built, well-constructed, well-made