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fabulate

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fabulate /ˈfabjʊleɪt /
▸ verb [no object] relate invented stories:
we fabulate; we make up a story to cover the facts we can't accept.
– DERIVATIVES
fabulation /fabjʊˈlɛɪʃ(ə)n/ noun
fabulator noun
– ORIGIN early 17th century: from Latin fabulat- ‘narrated as a fable’, from the verb fabulari, from fabula (see fable).