Other forms: fabricated, fabricating, fabricates
To fabricate is to invent a false story, or to manufacture parts. Fabricate evidence, fabricated the whole account, fabricate the panels.
The two senses share the idea of making: one makes a thing and the other makes something up. The industrial sense is entirely neutral — a fabrication shop cuts and welds metal — while the other is a serious accusation. Note fabric; and that the Latin fabrica is a workshop.
1verbfabricateTo invent a false story.
“The witness admitted she had fabricated the whole story to protect her brother.”
2verbmanufactureTo manufacture parts.
“The factory fabricates steel parts for bridges and ships.”
fabricate is a making.
Also accepted in games: make up
FABRICate → built up BRICK by brick
He built the story up brick by brick, and not one part of it happened.
hooks ontobrick
Latin fabricari comes from fabrica, a workshop, from faber, a craftsman. Fabric and forge come from the same making.
Latin
fabricātus
Middle English
fabricaten — to fashion, make
English, today
fabricate
Built from
From Middle English fabricaten (“to fashion, make”), from Latin fabricātus, perfect active participle of fabricor (see -ate), from fabrica (“a fabric, building”) + -ō; see fabric and forge. Cognate with French fabriquer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA