concoct

tr.v., -coct·ed, -coct·ing, -cocts.

1. To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
2. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a mystery story.

[Latin concoquere, concoct-, to boil together : com-, com- + coquere, to cook.]

concocter con·coct'er or con·coc'tor n.
concoction con·coc'tion n.
concoctive con·coc'tive adj.

verb

To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving: contrive, devise, dream up, fabricate, formulate, hatch, invent, make up, think up. Informal cook up. Idioms: come up with. See make/unmake.

IN BRIEF: To invent, make up or devise.

What story did the boys concoct to get out of mowing the lawn?

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The verb has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: make a concoction (of) my mixing

Meaning #2: prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
  Synonym: cook up

Meaning #3: of charges
  Synonym: trump up

Meaning #4: devise or invent
  Synonyms: think up, think of, dream up, hatch

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - brygge sammen, sammensætte, finde på

Nederlands (Dutch)
verzinnen, samenstellen

Français (French)
v. tr. - concocter, inventer

Deutsch (German)
v. - zubereiten, kreieren, sich zurechtlegen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - παρασκευάζω, μαγειρεύω, σκαρφίζομαι, επινοώ

Italiano (Italian)
inventare, fabbricare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - preparar, tramar

Русский (Russian)
состряпать, сварганить

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - urdir, fraguar, maquinar, inventar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - laga till, blanda till, dikta upp, planlägga

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
调制, 捏造, 调合, 图谋

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 調製, 捏造, 調合, 圖謀

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 혼합하여 만들다, 조작하다, 음모를 꾸미다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 混ぜ合わせて作る, 作り上げる, でっちあげる, 仕組む

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) اختلق, لفق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮התקין ע"י ערבוב חומרים, הכין תבשיל, המציא, בדה סיפור, שקר וכו'‬

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