Invent

[in-vent] /ɪnˈvɛnt/

verb (used with object)
1.
to originate or create as a product of one’s own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance:
to invent the telegraph.
2.
to produce or create with the imagination:
to invent a story.
3.
to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false):
to invent excuses.
4.
Archaic. to come upon; find.
/ɪnˈvɛnt/
verb
1.
to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
2.
to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
v.

late 15c., “find, discover,” a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire “to come upon; devise, discover” (see invention). Meaning “make up, think up” is from 1530s, as is that of “produce by original thought.” Related: Invented; inventing.

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