'Concoct' definitions:
Definition of 'concoct'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Concoct'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. [1913 Webster]
- He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'concoct'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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