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invent
[ in-vent ]
verb (used with object)
- to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
to invent the telegraph.
Synonyms: ,
- to produce or create with the imagination:
to invent a story.
Synonyms: ,
- to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
to invent excuses.
Synonyms:
- Archaic. to come upon; find.
invent
/ ɪˈɛԳ /
verb
- to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
- to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
Derived Forms
- ˈԳپ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Գi· ·Գa· adjective
- dzܳi·Գ verb (used with object)
- i·Գ verb (used with object)
- -·ԳĻ adjective
- ܲi·ԳĻ adjective
- ɱ-·ԳĻ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of invent1
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Example Sentences
Delighting in her rainbow-coloured and sometimes provocative persona, she claimed last year to have invented "gay pop".
One local holiday let owner said he saw Robbie driving a tractor with her co-star - although the agricultural vehicles were not invented until the late 19th Century.
There’s even a reference to rocky road ice cream, invented in Oakland in 1929.
There is the internet revolution upending business models and working patterns, inventing social media and concentrating vast wealth and influence among a clutch of global behemoths like Apple, Meta, Amazon and X.
“That film invented a lot about what we take for granted as a great documentary,” the younger of the pair says.
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