The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fabricate \Fab"ri*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] [L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
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To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.
Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.
--Paley.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fabricate English)
Usage examples of "fabricating".
Playing Johnny Appleseed on New Praxis with the Flowers of Life, conjuring Protoculture from them, fabricating the matrix Lang and the REF command worshiped like some sacrosanct icon.
For in fabricating the matrix Rem had helped deal yet another blow against the Flowers true guardians.
Then the hive-complex went to work and began fabricating an expansion processor.
There is more to creating a safe-cavern than fabricating a few mineral columns.
Even should industry be as willing to go along with us as labor is, a vast amount of retooling will be necessary before we can start fabricating the components for the tunnels.