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