invent
transitive verb
- to think up; devise or fabricate in the mind: to invent excuses
- to think out or produce (a new device, process, etc.); originate, as by experiment; devise for the first time
- Archaic to find; discover
See invent in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĭn-vĕntˈ)
transitive verb in·vent·ed,
in·vent·ing,
in·vents - To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
- To make up; fabricate: invent a likely excuse.
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