FABRICATE

v. 1 erect, build, construct, frame, raise, put or set up, assemble, fashion, form, make, manufacture, produce The basic structure was fabricated of steel 2 invent, create, originate, make up, manufacture, concoct, think up, imagine, hatch, devise, design Numerous lies, fabricated by politicians, were already in circulation 3 forge, falsify, counterfeit, fake, feign, manufacture; trump up, Colloq cook up, Brit cook He admitted to having fabricated the data in his application