| 单词 | invent |
| 释义 | invent —inventible, inventable, adj. /in vent"/, v.t. 1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. 2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. 3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses. 4. Archaic. to come upon; find. [1425-75; late ME invented (ptp.) found, discovered (see -ED2) < L inventus, ptp. of invenire to encounter, come upon, find, equiv. to in- IN-2 + ven(ire) to COME + -tus ptp. suffix] Syn. 1. devise, contrive. See discover. 2. imagine, conceive. 3. concoct. |
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