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Confabulate

verb
(past & past part. confabulated; pres. part. confabulating)
1.
Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory.
2.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.
3.
Have a conference in order to talk something over.  Synonyms: confab, confer, consult.





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... confused and hesitating, went to confabulate with his men, and returned some time after with eight of them, while the bulk of his force galloped away in the ...
— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor


Words linked to "Confabulate" :   confabulation, psychiatry, chit-chat, converse, fabricate, collogue, schmoose, jawbone, psychopathology, hash out, make up, confab, manufacture, schmooze, discuss, chew the fat, shmoose, discourse, gossip, talk over, chaffer, cook up, invent, shmooze, chitchat, chatter, psychological medicine


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