concoctionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/kənˈkɒk.ʃən/us/kənˈkɑːk.ʃən/the result or process of concocting something
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Mixing and mixtures
- be neither one thing nor the other idiom
- beat
- blend
- blend in/blend into sth
- brew
- churn
- cocktail
- cross-fertilization
- decoction
- emulsion
- impure
- intermingle
- meld
- mingle
- mixture
- neither
- preparation
- roll
- rolled into one idiom
- substance
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Food - general words
Examples from literature
- If, indeed, this novel concoction was the favorite fare of hunters, it is no wonder that the race of hunters is becoming extinct.
- Make the concoction with boiling water, from soot taken from the chimney or stove in which wood is burned.
- The old lady next door pottered in and out, putting mustard plasters on his chest and forgetting to take them off, and feeding him nauseous concoctions that she brewed over a coal-oil stove.
- The roast course was always accompanied by an aqueous, semi-frozen concoction which the bill of fare revealed as Roman punch.
- There he occupied himself with the concoction of poisons, the resource of fallen statesmen.