Sekirov Dictionary

concoct

/kənˈkɒkt/

verb 3
adjective 1
noun 1
forms 5

verb3

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To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
- Their only regret was, that Mademoiselle Carrara would taste none of the conserves and the pastry they were so busily concocting. — 1834
•
(figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
- He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct. — 2005
•
(no longer used) To digest.
- For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Foetus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […] — 1703

adjective1

(no longer used) Digested or affected by heat.

noun1

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(nonstandard, rare) A concoction.
- I don't suppose these creatures are the concoct of your mind?" La Tour said. "If they're real, then Nature there is warped, no doubt by oppressive dampness and heat." — 2006

forms

concocted · concocting · concocts · more concoct · most concoct

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