Concoct

Definition: Concoct

Concoct

Verb

1. Make a concoction (of) my mixing.

2. Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; "concoct a strange mixture".

3. Of charges.

4. Devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "concoct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Concoct \Con*coct"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Concocted; present participle verb or noun Concocting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Concoct

Falsehood

Invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; (imagine); cry "wolf!'

Plan

Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

Crosswords: Concoct

There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct! No depravity he wouldn't commit (The Great Mouse Detective; writing credit: Ron Clements; Paul Galdone)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "concoct": concoct an excuse. Additional references.

Albanian

shpik (coin, contrive, devise, fabricate, invent, strike out, weave), sajoj (coin, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), përgatit (coach, compose, cook up, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, qualify, stage-manage, train). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزج دواءة, ‏لفق (contrive, create, fabricate, fake, forge, fudge, invent, make up, trump up), ‏إخترع (contrive, fabricate, invent, think up, vamp), ‏أعد حضر (give one's word, groom, prepare, promise, ready), ‏دبر (administer, brew, cogitate, conduct, contrive, devise, engineer, lay, prepare, set, spare). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сготвям, сварявам, готвя (cook, do, prepare), измислям (coin, conceive, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Chinese 

編� (compile, cook up, create out of the imagination, draw up, fabricate, invent, make up, work out), 炮制 (Concocted, Concocting). (various references)

Czech

vymyslet (conceive, conjure, devise, invent, lay), vykouzlit (conjure up), vykonstruovat, svařit (joint, Mull), připravit (busk, cook, dispense, engineer, get ready, prepare, provide, temper), namíchat (mix up). (various references)

Farsi 

پختن (Bake, Cook, Grill, Hatch, Scallop, Shirr), ترکیب کردن (Agglutinate, Constitute, Incorporate, Merge, Piece, Synthesize, Unite), جعل کردن (Counterfeit, Invent, Manufacture, Mint), اختراع کردن (Compass, Devise, Invent, Mint), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

sepustaa (fabricate, forge, invent, make up, scribble). (various references)

French

concocter, composer (compose, comprise), combiner (combine, compound, contrive), inventer (contrive), élucubrer. (various references)

German

zusammenbrauen (brew, brew up, to concoct). (various references)

Greek 

σκευωρώ (cabal, machinate, scheme, trump), σκαρώνω (contrive, get up to, knock off, knock up), μηχανεύομαι (contrive, engineer), επινοώ (coin, come up with, contriv, contrive, devise, fabricate, invent, make up), ετοιμάζω (brew, get ready, make ready, prepare, prime). (various references)

Hebrew 

למצוץ מ�"אצבע (fabricate), ל�"כין (get ready, groom, prepare, ready), לב�"ות (confabulate, fabricate, feign, invent, make up), לרקוח (make, mix). (various references)

Hungarian

kiagyal (contrive, cook up, mastermind, to concoct, to cook up, to mint), készít (finish, make, prepare, sprang, sprung, to cartoon, to concoct, to construct, to fabricate, to proof, to reticulate, to spring, to strike a balance, to tailor, to take a rubbing of an inscription, to track). (various references)

Indonesian

menyelenggarakan (found), mengada-ngada (fabricate, invent), menempa (make metal objects, manufacture knives). (various references)

Italian

tramare (brew, conspire, intrigue, machinate, plot, scheme), preparare (arrange, be about to, dress, finish, fit, get ready, lay, make, prepare, prime), mettere insieme (blend, collect, gather, join, link, lump, mix, pick, pool, run up, rustle up, string, unite), mescolare (admix, alloy, blend, compound, confuse, dose, get mixed up, intermingle, intermix, jumble, lots, mingle, mix, mix up, muddle up, shuffle, stir), architettare (draw up, fabricate, plans for). (various references)

Manx

jannoo seose (consist, constitute, cultivation, make up, patch up), covestey (admixture, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, co-mix, compound, conglomerate, incorporate, intermingle, mix, temper). (various references)

Pig Latin

oncoctcay.(various references)

Portuguese

compor (compose, constitute, create, dash, draw up, indite, make, make up, set, spin, typeset, write, write off), planejar (arrange, brood, cogitate, compass, concert, conspire, contrive, count, design, frame, intend, lay, map, meditate, plan, program, programme, project, propone, propose, purpose, schedule, scheme, straighten out, trace, work out), misturar (admix, combine, commingle, confound, diffuse, draw in, fuse, huddle, incorporate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, jumble, knead, mash, medley, merge, mingle, mix, mix up, shuffle, temper), inventar (coin, contrive, cook up, create, devise, discover, dream up, feign, forge, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, mint), imaginar (conceit, conceive, contrive, deem, devise, dream, engineer, excogitate, expect, fable, fabricate, fancy, figure, guess, ideate, image, imagine, make believe, see, suppose, think, weave). (various references)

Romanian

combina (arrange, blend, combine, compound, contrive, devise, group, hammer out, joint, match, mix, piece, put together, temper), ticlui (devise, make up, palter with), scorni (fabricate, forge, invent), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), prepara (confection, dispense, dress, make up, prepare), pregãti (coach, compose, cook, do, dress, fit, get up, lay out, make, make ready, prepare, prime, put in, train, tutor), nãscoci (contrive, cook, devise, discover, fabricate, feign, forge, frame, fudge, get up, invent, make up, manufacture, shape, spin out, start, trump up), inventa (coin, contrive, devise, discover, fable, fabricate, feign, find, find oneself, frame, fudge, invent, make up, manufacture, originate, plot, shape), fierbe la un loc, fabrica (coin, fabricate, forge, make, manufacture, mint, prepare, process, produce, work), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, pie, poison, rabble, shuffle, temper, work), închipui (fabricate, imagine, represent, scheme, shadow, symbolize), ţese (darn, embroider, hatch, spin, weave, work, wove weave). (various references)

Russian 

стряпать (cook, cook up), состряпать (cook up), концентрировать (center, centre, concentrate, concentre, mass), замышлять (brew, compass, contrive, design, meditate, scheme), придумывать (contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, fictionalize, invent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamesiti (knead, mix), zakuvati (cook up, make things hot). (various references)

Spanish

confeccionar (make, make up, manufacture, prepare, put together), tramar (contrive, cook up, engineer, hatch, plot, put up, scheme, weave), preparado (dispensed, drafted, extract, laid, preparation, prepared, ready, ready-for-service, trained), mezclar (admix, blend, commingle, intermix, jumble, lump together, mash, medley, mingle, mix, mix up, puddle, scramble). (various references)

Swedish

koka ihop (cook up, fake, frame). (various references)

Turkish

uyduruvermek (cobble, extemporize, make up, rig, rig up, rustle up), uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), hazırlamak (arrange, coach, engross, equip, formulate, groom, knock up, lay, lay out, make ready, prepare, set, set by, stage, work up). (various references)

Ukrainian

фабрикувати (coin, fabricate, manufacture), готувати (brew, cook, do, dress, ready), вигадувати (coin, conceit, contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, fabricate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, think out). (various references)

concinnabat, concinnanda, concinnandas, concinnat, concinnatis, concinnavit, confla, conflabimini, conflabitur, conflabo, conflandum, conflans, conflasti, conflata, conflatae, conflator, conflatur, conflatus, conflaverunt, conflavit, confletur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "concoct": concocted, concocter, concocters, concocting, concoction, concoctions, concoctive, concocts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Concoct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ceonocc, cocot, concat, concocte, concort, concot, Conholt, Connock, Conoca, conoct, Johncock, oncost. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: conto.

-3 letters: coco, coon, coot, onto, toon.

-4 letters: con, coo, cot, noo, not, oot, ton, too.

-5 letters: no, on, to.

+1 letter: concocts.

+2 letters: concocted, concocter.

+3 letters: coenocytic, concocters, concocting, concoction, concoctive.

+4 letters: concoctions, enterococci.

+5 letters: concomitance, enterococcal, enterococcus, iconoclastic.