invent
verb
- = create, make, produce, develop, design, discover, imagine, manufacture, generate, come up with (informal), coin, devise, conceive, originate, formulate, spawn, contrive, improvise, dream up (informal), concoct, think up •
He invented the first electric clock.
- = make up, devise, concoct, forge, fake, fabricate, feign, falsify, cook up (informal), trump up •
I stood there, trying to invent a plausible excuse.
'invent' in Other Languages
- British English: invent
If you invent something, you are the first person to think of it or make it.He invented the first electric clock.ɪnˈvɛnt VERB - Arabic: يَخْتَرِعُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: inventar
- Chinese: 发明
- Croatian: izumiti
- Czech: vynalézt vynalézat
- Danish: opfinde
- Dutch: uitvindenbedenken
- European Spanish: inventar
- Finnish: keksiä
- French: inventer
- German: erfinden
- Greek: εφευρίσκω
- Italian: inventare
- Japanese: 発明する
- Korean: 발명하다
- Norwegian: finne opp
- Polish: wynaleźć wynajdować
- Portuguese: inventar
- Romanian: a inventa
- Russian: изобретать
- Spanish: inventar
- Swedish: uppfinna
- Thai: ประดิษฐ์
- Turkish: icat etmek
- Ukrainian: винаходити винайти
- Vietnamese: phát minh
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