0 past simple and past participle of concoct
1 to make something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned:
Accordingly, the regime concocted its own solution to the consumption problem.
In her panic to get away with it to parents - who are useless - she concocted the story.
You have to have some dialogue that is concocted and some genuinely communicative situations as well.
Anecdotes made up the basic elements in all sorts of illegal literature, and they could be concocted in endless combinations.
To seize these hastily concocted and untried preparations after discovery of their lethal effect, or to prosecute the manufacturer criminally, is not enough.
Enacting this law was a sick social experiment concocted by shortsighted criminologists and votehungry lawmakers.
There were so many suspicions that my son concocted the story for some reason best known to himself.
It does not even matter whether the discomfort predicated by want is real or concocted by a consumer society that promotes the idea of inadequacy to sell more product.
