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Verb: concoct  kón'kókt
  1. (cooking) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
    "concoct a strange mixture";
    - cook up
     
  2. Fabricate or invent (especially false accusations or charges)
    "The regime concoctd charges against the opposition leader";
    - trump up
     
  3. Devise or invent
    "He concocted a plan to get rich quickly";
    - think up, think of, dream up, hatch, hit on
     
  4. Make a concoction (of) by mixing
    "The bartender concocted a new cocktail for the party"

Derived forms: concocted, concocts, concocting

See also: cerebrate

Type of: amalgamate, commix [archaic], cook, cook up [informal], create by mental act, create mentally, fabricate, fix [informal], invent, make, make up, manufacture, mingle, mix, prepare, ready, unify

Encyclopedia: Concoct