0 present 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:
The crucial difference here is that the puritan-minded passions are seen concocting an actual conspiracy against their king.
People would be better served if voluntary effort were devoted to helping those in need, rather than to concocting propaganda figures.
In this recent meeting and in the realm of defence generally we are concocting nothing aggressive against anyone.
Endless hours were spent concocting mission statements and codes of conduct and further endless hours promulgating them to the force.
They are not ones which have been made from taking a whole lot of other books and concocting something out of them.
There are quite sufficient penalties in this country already without concocting any more, and it is a pity to create further crimes that the industrialist may commit unwittingly.
It is extremely unfortunate that last summer a great deal of effort was put into concocting inventions about our proposals and then publicising them to patients.
If he considers that there is anything in that, will he come back with an amendment at a later stage or consider concocting one with me?
