concoct

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1. concoct - Noun

2. concoct - Adjective

3. concoct - Verb

Meaning

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

To purify or refine chemically.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

To mature or perfect; to ripen.

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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. Edgar Allan Poe

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. John Grisham

That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body. Benjamin Franklin

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses. Calvin Trillin

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. Richard Dawkins

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious. Florence Welch

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