To produce or contrive (some thing formerly unknown) by way of ingenuity or imagination.
to create up; fabricate: invent a likely reason.
in the future or light upon; to satisfy; locate.
to see, as by study or query; to find out; to create; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied frequently into breakthrough of some serviceable mode, instrument, or device.
To frame by the imagination; to fabricate psychologically; to forge; -- in a good or a bad good sense
To find out by original study or contrivance; make by a unique use or mixture of means; develop the shape, building, composition, technique, or principle of.
generally, to make by contrivance; fabricate; concoet; create: as, to invent the story of an account; to create a justification or a falsehood.
Synonyms 2 and 3. Discover, Invent. See find and creation.
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