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Meanings of concoct in English

Portuguese
pensar
Catalan
confeccionar
Spanish
pensar en

Devise or invent.

        pensar
        Spanish
        maquinar

        Invent.

              maquinar

              Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients.

                    Usage of concoct in English
                    1
                    The brains of an ox could concoct such ideas in nine days.
                    Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Withi...
                    2
                    The night quickly became a contest to concoct the worst-tasting combination possible.
                    Raising Stony Mayhall
                    3
                    I was just surprised that anybody could concoct such a bizarre story.
                    Johannes cabal the necromancer
                    4
                    Are you really sure you can concoct some ointment to soothe this?
                    Summers at Castle Auburn
                    5
                    Can you concoct something resembling real food out of packeted medicinal tonics?
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    The game is mostly driven by the imaginative stories the players concoct.
                    Wired
                    7
                    Such vengeance does my abundance concoct: such spite wells from my solitude.
                    Ecce homo (the autobiography of friedrich nietzsche)
                    8
                    This time I was trying to concoct a dose of literary adrenaline.
                    Samurai
                    9
                    But there's no denying that these four men concoct some psyche-shaking atmospherics.
                    Radio NZ
                    10
                    This done, one of them proposed to concoct their report at once.
                    It Is Never Too Late to Mend
                    11
                    Is it tedious when musicians hide their identities and concoct fanciful biographies?
                    The Guardian
                    12
                    No, Herr Custer, you will have to concoct a more plausible tale.
                    The Mad King
                    13
                    She's apt to concoct something like this when in a stormy mood.
                    The new yorker
                    14
                    And he'd have the tools, the know-how, to concoct a psychotropic poison.
                    Existence
                    15
                    Without question, she would be able to concoct stories such as this one.
                    In every heartbeat
                    16
                    I thought I'd go ahead and concoct one more function they'd never suspect.
                    Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
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                    Translations for concoct
                    Portuguese
                    pensarinventar
                    Concoct through the time
                    Concoct across language varieties
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