Meaning & use
confabulate
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To chat or converse informally.
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The old friends confabulated for hours over coffee.
Board members confabulated in the hallway before the meeting officially began.
A note on using this word
The casual sense ('to chat') is largely literary, while the clinical sense is common in psychology and neurology, describing patients who unconsciously invent false memories.
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2. verb
(psychology) To unintentionally fabricate false memories while believing them to be true.
After the brain injury, he would confabulate elaborate stories about his morning without realizing they weren't true.
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