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fabrication

fab·ri·ca·tion [ ˌfa-bri-ˈkā-shən]

fabrication

noun

[ˌfa-bri-ˈkā-shən]

Definition of fabrication

1 : the act or process of fabricating

2 : a product of fabrication
especially : lie, falsehood

Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty

Synonyms: Synonyms

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truth

Recent Examples on the Web

//That is completing the rebranding effort begun last year with the fabrication and installation of new signs at city entrances and at Walter Stinson Park.
— cleveland.com, "University Heights council agrees to buy a house, wait to buy new city entrance signs," 17 Sep. 2019
//Her whimsical and playful use of color and texture was the fabrication for the season.
— Ashley Rushford, Essence, "NYFW: Christian Siriano Spring/Summer 2020 Was Filled With Pops Of Color," 8 Sep. 2019
//This trade intensified when the Roman Empire expanded north of the Alps, and in some Roman cities the fabrication of amber art wares reached almost industrial proportions.
— Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, "Follow the Ancient Amber Road," 29 Aug. 2019
//It is used in the fabrication of nose cones for long-range missiles and the manufacture of the rotors in the centrifuges that enrich uranium.
— Robert Windrem, NBC News, "3 Iranians charged with exporting tons of substance used in missiles, nuclear centrifuges," 16 July 2019
//Among them are a black micromesh jacket ($1,790) in which the lightweight fabrication seems to perfectly balance the padded shoulders and tall collar.
— Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, "Bold and bright and available now: shopping the fall and winter 2019 women’s trends," 6 Sep. 2019
//As the fulfillment of these policy promises has stalled, or dropped from view, Trump has responded, as all demagogues do, by trying to define his own reality and vilifying anyone who undermines his fabrications by reporting the truth.
— John Cassidy, The New Yorker, "“Sharpiegate” and Donald Trump’s Perpetual Cone of Uncertainty," 6 Sep. 2019
//People in this category might do things like pass along the fabrications against Baltic democracies that crop up relentlessly online.
— The Economist, "How the Baltic states spot the Kremlin’s agents," 1 Aug. 2019
//Metal fabrication companies skilled in bending, welding and polishing sheet metal make custom sinks from stainless steel, copper, zinc, pewter, brass or bronze.
— Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, "Switching out a double sink for a single one is expensive, one way or the other," 29 July 2019

First Known Use of fabrication

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

History and Etymology for fabrication

Middle English fabricacionne, borrowed from Latin fabricātiōn-, fabricātiō, from fabricāre, fabricārī "to fashion, shape, construct" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at fabricate

Dictionary Entries near fabrication

fabrication-in-transit

fabricative

fabricature

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Synonyms & Antonyms of fabrication

1 a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

her claim that she had been a nurse during the war proved to be a total fabrication

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Words Related to fabrication

perjury

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truth

2 something that is the product of the imagination

the notion that the Colossus of Rhodes could straddle the harbor was a fabrication of medieval writers

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Words Related to fabrication

make-believe

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More Definitions forfabrication

fabrication

noun

fab·ri·ca·tion | \ ˌfab-ri-ˈkā-shən \

Medical Definition of fabrication

: confabulation