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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
concoct \concoct"\, v. t. imp. p. p. concocted; p. pr.
vb. n. concocting. l. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to
cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. see
cook.
1. to digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of
nutrition. obs.
1913 webster
food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood
circulates. --cheyne.
1913 webster
2. to purify or refine chemically. obs. --thomson.
1913 webster
3. to prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or
prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct
a new dish or beverage.
1913 webster
4. to digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive;
to plan; to plot.
1913 webster
he was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct
any great fortune. --hayward.
1913 webster
5. to mature or perfect; to ripen. obs. --bacon.
1913 webster
see also:
concocted concocting cook
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
concoct
v 1: make a concoction of by mixing
2: prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange
mixture" syn: cook up
3: of charges syn: trump up
4: devise or invent; "he thought up a plan to get rich
quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece
of software" syn: think up, think of, dream up, hatch
see also:
cook up trump up think up think of dream up hatch
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
164 moby thesaurus words for "concoct":
accessory, accompanying, adjuvant, admix, alloy, amalgamate,
ancillary, angle, assemble, attendant, attending, beget, bemingle,
blend, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, build, cabal,
call into being, cast, coalesce, coin, coincident, collateral,
collude, combine, commingle, commix, complot, compose, compound,
conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conglomerate, connive, conspire,
construct, contrive, cook up, correlative, corresponding,
counterfeit, countermine, counterplot, create, decoct, design,
develop, devise, discover, dream up, elaborate, emulsify, engender,
engineer, envisage, envision, erect, evolve,
experience imaginatively, extrude, fabricate, fake, fancy,
fantasize, fashion, fictionalize, finagle, finesse, fix up, forge,
form, formulate, frame, frame up, fudge, fudge together, fuse,
generate, get up, give being to, give rise to, hash, hatch,
hatch a plot, hatch up, hoke up, homogenize, ideate, imagine,
immingle, immix, improvise, incident, indite, integrate,
interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix,
intertwine, interweave, intrigue, invent, jumble, knead,
lay a plot, machinate, make, make do with, make up, maneuver,
manufacture, mature, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, mint, mix,
mix up, mold, operate, origin, originate, patch together,
piece together, plan, plot, prefabricate, prepare, procreate,
produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, rig, run up, satellite,
scheme, scramble, set up, shape, shuffle, spawn, stir up,
strike out, supplementary, suppose, syncretize, think out,
think up, throw together, toss together, trump up, vamp up, wangle,
whomp up, work, write
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