| 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 | - |
| abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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| abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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| abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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| abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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| cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| 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 |
| fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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| 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 | - |
| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| refabrication | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: reassembly |
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| unabridged | (adjective) (used of texts) not shortened | - |
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| (noun) a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary | Synonyms: unabridged dictionary |