concoct
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəŋˈkɒkt/
Verb
concoct (third-person singular simple present concocts, present participle concocting, simple past and past participle concocted)
- To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
- 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books (→ISBN)
- Pecan shells make good fuel, and they are used by leather tanners to concoct their foul-smelling compounds, and sometimes we mix them with charcoal in hand-soap to make a really good scrubbing agent
- 2014, Lisa Howard, Healthier Gluten-Free, Fair Winds Press (MA) (→ISBN), page 171:
- The twelve include Jill (she used to be a chicken-and-potatoes girl, but now she's willing to try whatever I concoct), […]
- 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles, Tor Books (→ISBN)
- (figuratively) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
- 2005, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 161:
- 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, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 161:
- (obsolete) To digest.
- 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:
- For the parts of an Embryo are nourished and encreased before it hath a Stomach to concoct any thing, and yet in a perfect Fœtus none can deny that the Stomach does concoct […]
- 1703, Thomas Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, page 297:
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to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
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to contrive something using skill or ingenuity
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