'Confabulate' definitions:
Definition of 'confabulate'
From: WordNet
verb
Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
verb
Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
verb
Definition of 'Confabulate'
From: GCIDE
- Confabulate \Con*fab"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating.] [L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabula. See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. [1913 Webster]
- I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]