concoct

concoct
    v 1: make a concoction (of) by mixing
    2: prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange
       mixture" [syn: {concoct}, {cook up}]
    3: invent; "trump up charges" [syn: {trump up}, {concoct}]
    4: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly";
       "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
       [syn: {think up}, {think of}, {dream up}, {hatch}, {concoct}]
    

Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concocted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Concocting}.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to
   cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See
   {Cook}.]
   1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of
      nutrition. [Obs.]
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            Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood
            circulates.                           --Cheyne.
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   2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson.
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   3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or
      prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct
      a new dish or beverage.
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   4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive;
      to plan; to plot.
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            He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct
            any great fortune.                    --Hayward.
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   5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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164 Moby Thesaurus words for "concoct":
      accessory, accompanying, adjuvant, admix, alloy, amalgamate,
      ancillary, angle, assemble, attendant, attending, beget, bemingle,
      blend, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, build, cabal,
      call into being, cast, coalesce, coin, coincident, collateral,
      collude, combine, commingle, commix, complot, compose, compound,
      conceit, conceive, conceptualize, conglomerate, connive, conspire,
      construct, contrive, cook up, correlative, corresponding,
      counterfeit, countermine, counterplot, create, decoct, design,
      develop, devise, discover, dream up, elaborate, emulsify, engender,
      engineer, envisage, envision, erect, evolve,
      experience imaginatively, extrude, fabricate, fake, fancy,
      fantasize, fashion, fictionalize, finagle, finesse, fix up, forge,
      form, formulate, frame, frame up, fudge, fudge together, fuse,
      generate, get up, give being to, give rise to, hash, hatch,
      hatch a plot, hatch up, hoke up, homogenize, ideate, imagine,
      immingle, immix, improvise, incident, indite, integrate,
      interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix,
      intertwine, interweave, intrigue, invent, jumble, knead,
      lay a plot, machinate, make, make do with, make up, maneuver,
      manufacture, mature, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, mint, mix,
      mix up, mold, operate, origin, originate, patch together,
      piece together, plan, plot, prefabricate, prepare, procreate,
      produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, rig, run up, satellite,
      scheme, scramble, set up, shape, shuffle, spawn, stir up,
      strike out, supplementary, suppose, syncretize, think out,
      think up, throw together, toss together, trump up, vamp up, wangle,
      whomp up, work, write