(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it.
He ~ed the first electric clock...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ a story or excuse, you try to make other people believe that it is true when in fact it is not.
I stood still, trying to ~ a plausible excuse.
VERB: V n