INVENT

Pronunciation (US):

• INVENT (verb)
  The verb INVENT has 2 senses:

1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
2. make up something artificial or untrue

  Familiarity information: INVENT used as a verb is rare.

• INVENT (verb)

Meaning:

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

invent; devise; excogitate; contrive; formulate; forge

Context example:

excogitate a way to measure the speed of light

Hypernyms (to "invent" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he invent his major works over a short period of time?

Meaning:

Make up something artificial or untrue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; manufacture; make up

Hypernyms (to "invent" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "invent"):

mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)

confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)

concoct; trump up (invent)

spin (make up a story)

vamp; vamp up (make up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something