0 to make something, usually food, by adding several different parts together, often in a way that is original or not planned:
A regimental sergeant major was up against one of the men, and he and the adjutant concocted a plot.
Indeed, one of the commissioners had twins while the report was being concocted.
I personally tremble to think how many more of these will be concocted.
The police needed a scanner for vehicles which appeared to be suspiciously concocted from stolen parts.
In that case the plaintiff suffered a very minor accident indeed and concocted a vastly inflated amount of injury and damage flowing from it.
One almost gathered that this announcement was something which had been hurriedly concocted for election purposes and had no basis in fact at all.
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.
The old system whereby local authorities concocted their own needs and thereby had the right to dip into the taxpayers' purse was not fair and reasonable.
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調製,配製(通常指食品), 編造,捏造,虛構(藉口、解釋或故事)…
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(話など)をでっちあげる, (食べ物など)を混ぜ合わせて作る…
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