verb (used with object), fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing.
- to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- to make by assembling parts or sections.
- to devise or invent (a legend, lie, etc.).
- to fake; forge (a document, signature, etc.).
verb (tr)
- to make, build, or construct
- to devise, invent, or concoct (a story, lie, etc)
- to fake or forge
mid-15c., “to fashion, make, build,” from Latin fabricatus, past participle of fabricare “make, construct, fashion, build,” from fabrica (see fabric). In bad sense of “to tell a lie,” etc., it is recorded by 1779. Related: Fabricated; fabricating.