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concoct

/kon-kokt, kuhn-/US // kɒnˈkɒkt, kən- //UK // (kənˈkɒkt) //

炮制,编造,炮制出,酝酿

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery: to concoct a meal from leftovers.
    • : to devise; make up; contrive: to concoct an excuse.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbformulate, think up
Forms: concocted

Examples

  • The city concocted a plan to raise the hotels’ property taxes in a way they could pass along to their customers, like the hotel room tax.

  • She and her colleagues previously showed that treating corals with carefully concocted probiotic cocktails could mitigate coral bleaching in lab experiments.

  • The concocted calculation proved highly popular in social sciences, biomedical and epidemiological research, neuroscience and biological anthropology.

  • The friend told the IG agent that he was not there in any formal capacity for the FBI and that Ibrahim had concocted the story, according to court records.

  • Doping shreds public trust in athletics and in each affected sport — not just in countries known for concocting systematic doping measures, but right here in the United States.

  • By the late 1600s, chemists and herbalists had begun to concoct their own scientific mixtures for curing the hangover.

  • That means shoppers will no longer have to rely on the big-name designers to concoct pieces with the latest trends.

  • You can create anything, add flavorings—you can concoct things.

  • His lifelong obsession with elegance and order, he said, led him to concoct sexy results that journals found attractive.

  • So why did anybody ever bother to concoct the oil story in the first place?

  • "But you must concoct something with more staying power," he went on.

  • I must concoct a letter and explain my views; and the more I can make him understand how things really are the better.

  • All that region abounds in sweet, wild apples, from which the Indians concoct a fermented liquor which they call chi-chi.

  • I marched on with my men, leaving him and Belfort to concoct whatever mischief they would.

  • In story-telling, those who concoct the biggest lies receive the most applause.