fabricate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; He manufactured a popular cereal"
    manufacture; construct.
    • the company fabricates plastic chairs
    • They manufacture small toys
  2. verb make up something artificial or untrue
    manufacture; cook up; invent; make up.

WordNet

Fab"ri*cate transitive verb
Etymology
L. fabricatus, p.p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fabricated ; present participle & verbal noun Fabricating
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913