fabulate

[ fab-yuh-leyt ]

verb (used without object)

, fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing.

1. to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
2. to relate an event as a fable.

Other Words From

• fabu·lation noun
• fabu·lator noun

Example Sentences

Was her fall the result of having bought into a fabulated, “white” idea of ambition?

From New York Times

Certainly, Henry fabulated and shaped various details and incidents.

From The New Yorker

Later stages are at times accompanied by inclination to fabulate, loss of judgment, disorientation, narrowing of the external interests, episodes of confusion and hallucinatory delirium.

From Project Gutenberg

People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have ``desire to fabulate.''

From Project Gutenberg