confabular — meaning in English
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English meaning
- confabulate verb To speak casually with; to chat.
- connive verb To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
Senses
confabular is used for these senses in English:
- confabulate (ambitransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
- connive (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. [from mid 17th c.]
confabulate — full definition
- verb To speak casually with; to chat.
- verb To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
connive — full definition
- verb To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- verb Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- verb Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- verb To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.