выдумывать — meaning in English

English meaning

• concoct verb To make something, especially food or a drink, by combining different ingredients.
• feign verb To pretend to feel or have something that isn't real.
• invent verb To create or design something new that didn't exist before.

Senses

выдумывать is used for these senses in English:

• concoct (figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
• dream up To have an imaginative, unusual or foolish idea, to invent something unreal.
• feign To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
• invent To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
• think up (idiomatic) To create in one’s mind; to invent.

concoct — full definition

1. verb To make something, especially food or a drink, by combining different ingredients.
2. verb To invent a story, plan, or excuse, often a dishonest one.

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