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concoct (verb)

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  • concoct — ► VERB 1) make (a dish or meal) by combining ingredients. 2) invent or devise (a story or plan). DERIVATIVES concocter noun concoction noun. ORIGIN Latin concoquere cook together …   English terms dictionary

  • concoct — verb Concoct is used with these nouns as the object: ↑alibi, ↑scheme …   Collocations dictionary

  • concoct — verb 1) he planned to concoct a dessert Syn: prepare, make, assemble; informal fix, rustle up 2) this story she has concocted Syn: make up, dream up, fabricate, invent, trump up; formulate, hatch …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • concoct — verb a) to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking b) to contrive something using skill or ingenuity See Also: concoction …   Wiktionary

  • concoct — verb (T) 1 to invent a clever story, excuse, or plan, especially in order to deceive someone: John concocted an elaborate excuse for being late. 2 to make something, especially food or drink, by mixing different things, especially things that are …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • concoct — [16] To concoct an excuse is the same, etymologically, as to ‘cook’ one up. The word concoct comes from the past participle of Latin concoquere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com ‘together’ and coquere ‘cook’. This was a derivative of… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • concoct — [[t]kənkɒ̱kt[/t]] concocts, concocting, concocted 1) VERB If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true. [V n] Mr Ferguson said the prisoner concocted the story to get a lighter sentence. 2) VERB If you concoct… …   English dictionary

  • concoct — [16] To concoct an excuse is the same, etymologically, as to ‘cook’ one up. The word concoct comes from the past participle of Latin concoquere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com ‘together’ and coquere ‘cook’. This was a derivative of… …   Word origins

  • concoct — /kənˈkɒkt / (say kuhn kokt), /kəŋ / (say kuhng ) verb (t) 1. to make by combining ingredients, as in cookery: to concoct a soup; to concoct a dinner. 2. to prepare; make up; contrive: to concoct a story. {Latin concoctus, past participle, cooked… …  

  • concoct — transitive verb Etymology: Latin concoctus, past participle of concoquere to cook together, from com + coquere to cook more at cook Date: 1675 1. to prepare by combining raw materials < concoct a recipe > 2. devise, fabricate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • concoct — UK [kənˈkɒkt] / US [kənˈkɑkt] verb [transitive] Word forms concoct : present tense I/you/we/they concoct he/she/it concocts present participle concocting past tense concocted past participle concocted 1) to invent a false explanation or false… …   English dictionary

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