MEANING
1. To make or construct something from materials or components.
2. To invent an account, claim, or evidence and present it falsely as genuine.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- fabricate a framework
- fabricate components
On the page
The workshop fabricated the framework from salvaged sections.
She asked who had fabricated the replacement panel.
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Word forms
- Base
- fabricate
- Past tense
- fabricated
- Past participle
- fabricated
- Present participle
- fabricating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- fabricate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are fabricating
- Present perfect
- have/has fabricated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been fabricating
- Past
- fabricated
- Past continuous
- was/were fabricating
- Past perfect
- had fabricated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been fabricating
- Future
- will fabricate
- Future continuous
- will be fabricating
- Future perfect
- will have fabricated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been fabricating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: fabricate; fabricates; fabricated; fabricated; fabricating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: fabricates.
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