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English

Verb

to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
to contrive something using skill or ingenuity

Related terms

concoction

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Concoct \Con*coct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concocted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Concocting.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to
cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See
Cook.]
1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of
nutrition. [Obs.]
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Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood
circulates. --Cheyne.
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2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson.
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3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or
prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct
a new dish or beverage.
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4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive;
to plan; to plot.
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He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct
any great fortune. --Hayward.
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5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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WordNet concoct
v 1: make a concoction (of) by mixing
2: prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange
mixture" [syn: cook up]
3: of charges [syn: trump up]
4: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich
quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece
of software" [syn: think up, think of, dream up, hatch]

Moby Dictionary
accessory , accompanying , adjuvant , admix , alloy , amalgamate ,
ancillary , angle , assemble , attendant , attending , beget , bemingle ,
blend , breed , brew , bring forth , bring into being , build , cabal ,
call into being , cast , coalesce , coin , coincident , collateral ,
collude , combine , commingle , commix , complot , compose , compound ,
conceit , conceive , conceptualize , conglomerate , connive , conspire ,
construct , contrive , cook up , correlative , corresponding ,
counterfeit , countermine , counterplot , create , decoct , design ,
develop , devise , discover , dream up , elaborate , emulsify , engender ,
engineer , envisage , envision , erect , evolve ,
experience imaginatively , extrude , fabricate , fake , fancy ,
fantasize , fashion , fictionalize , finagle , finesse , fix up , forge ,
form , formulate , frame , frame up , fudge , fudge together , fuse ,
generate , get up , give being to , give rise to , hash , hatch ,
hatch a plot , hatch up , hoke up , homogenize , ideate , imagine ,
immingle , immix , improvise , incident , indite , integrate ,
interblend , interlace , interlard , intermingle , intermix ,
intertwine , interweave , intrigue , invent , jumble , knead ,
lay a plot , machinate , make , make do with , make up , maneuver ,
manufacture , mature , merge , mingle , mingle-mangle , mint , mix ,
mix up , mold , operate , origin , originate , patch together ,
piece together , plan , plot , prefabricate , prepare , procreate ,
produce , put together , put up , raise , rear , rig , run up , satellite ,
scheme , scramble , set up , shape , shuffle , spawn , stir up ,
strike out , supplementary , suppose , syncretize , think out ,
think up , throw together , toss together , trump up , vamp up , wangle ,
whomp up , work , write