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invent

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of invent

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother

Synonyms of invent

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

Words Related to invent

coin, design, hatch, produce

daydream, dream, fantasize

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

ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Phrases Synonymous with invent

come up with

Near Antonyms of invent

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

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