| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |