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concoct

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of concoct

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

trying to concoct an explanation for how the lamp got broken by itself

Synonyms of concoct

construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)

Words Related to concoct

coin, design, hatch, produce

daydream, dream, fantasize

conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize

ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Phrases Synonymous with concoct

come up with

Near Antonyms of concoct

clone, copy, copycat, duplicate, imitate, mimic, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce

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