Meaning & use
Fabricated
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Invented falsely in order to deceive, or manufactured from raw materials.
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The witness admitted that her entire story had been fabricated.
The bridge's steel frame was fabricated at a plant hundreds of miles away.
A note on using this word
The word covers two senses: the negative sense of making up a lie, and the neutral industrial sense of manufacturing something from parts or materials.
Words with a similar meaning
inventedmanufactured
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Words with an opposite meaning
genuineauthentic
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Constructed or manufactured from parts or raw materials.
The custom parts were fabricated to exact specifications.
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