invent
[ in-vent ]
/ ɪnˈvɛnt /
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
Archaic.
to come upon; find.
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invent
/ (ɪnˈvɛnt) /
verb
to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
Derived forms of invent
inventible or inventable, adjectiveWord Origin for invent
C15: from Latin
invenīre to find, come upon, from
in- ² +
venīre to come