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to confabulate
01
to have a casual and light conversation without sharing a lot of information
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
confabulate
3rd person singular
confabulates
Past simple
confabulated
Past participle
confabulated
Examples
As they waited for the meeting to start, colleagues confabulated about their weekend plans.
02
to confer or discuss something with others
Intransitive
Examples
The team will confabulate tomorrow to discuss the project's progress.
03
to create or invent fictitious experiences or details to fill gaps in one's memory
Intransitive
Transitive: to confabulate experiences or details
Examples
After the accident, he began to confabulate stories about events that never happened.
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