Synonyms of manufacture

manufacture 1 of 2

verb

1

as in to produce

to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials

the company manufactures appliances and electronics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• produce
• make
• create
• fabricate
• construct
• assemble
• build
• form
• fashion
• frame
• craft
• put together
• organize
• shape
• design
• invent
• structure
• erect
• make up
• establish
• forge
• set up
• throw up
• handcraft
• mold
• devise
• originate
• rear
• raise
• patch (together)
• hew
• put up
• knock out
• institute
• prefabricate
• mint
• conceive
• contrive
• imagine
• visualize
• think (up)
• envisage
• remanufacture
• concoct
• cook (up)
• remake
• father
• cobble (together or up)
• picture
• refashion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantle
• destroy
• disassemble
• eradicate
• break up
• abolish
• ruin
• exterminate
• extinguish
• annihilate
• take apart
• demolish
• flatten
• smash
• wreck
• shatter
• dismember
• devastate
• explode
• blow up
• pulverize
• raze

2

as in to devise

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

he manufactured some story about how his car broke down and he was unable to call home and let anyone know that he would be late

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devise
• construct
• invent
• concoct
• design
• produce
• think (up)
• fabricate
• come up with
• drum up
• cook (up)
• contrive
• make up
• excogitate
• trump up
• hatch
• conceive
• vamp (up)
• envision
• imagine
• visualize
• dream
• coin
• improvise
• vision
• envisage
• fantasize
• daydream
• extemporize
• picture
• ad-lib

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

manufacture

2 of 2

noun

as in production

Related Words

• production
• printing
• publishing
• publication
• issuing
• distribution
• release
• dissemination
• coming out
• transmission
• broadcasting
• circulation
• propagation
• putting out
• advertising
• promotion
• propaganda
• promulgation
• syndication
• publicity
• communication
• declaration
• announcement
• notification
• advent
• emergence
• proclamation
• arrival
• debut
• appearance
• spread
• enunciation
• annunciation

Dissimilar Words

• suppression
• censorship

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of manufacture

Verb

Meanwhile, University of Michigan economics professor Chris Douglas argued in an op-ed this month that the state of Michigan should manufacture air conditioners for Europe. — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Since error correction codes are based on the geometry of the connections among qubits, this means committing to one or a small number of error correction codes when the chip is manufactured. — ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

Noun

Yet, here was a globally accessible piece of technology apparently spilling the secrets of their manufacture for anyone who could manipulate it the right way. — IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2026

New discs do not sound good with paper in them, and because these labels are pressed into records during manufacture, not stuck onto them after, they cannot simply be peeled off. — Kyle Devine, Longreads, 14 July 2026