fabricate

verb

1 he was found to have fabricated research data:

forge, falsify, fake, counterfeit, make up, invent.

2 he is guilty of fabricating a pack of lies:

concoct, make up, contrive, think up, dream up, invent, manufacture, trump up;

informal cook up.

3 you will have to fabricate an exhaust system:

make, create, manufacture, produce;

construct, build, assemble, put together, cobble together, form, fashion, contrive, model, shape, forge;

erect, put up, set up, raise, elevate.

▷antonyms destroy, dismantle.