concoct

UK: /kənˈkɒkt/ US: /kənˈkɑkt/ ,(kon kokt′, kən-)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

con•coct /kənˈkɑkt/   v. [~ + object]

1. to prepare by combining ingredients:
   to concoct a meal from leftovers.
2. to make up; invent:
   to concoct an excuse.

con•coct•er, con•coc•tor, n. [countable]
con•coc•tion /kənˈkɑkʃən/  n. 

[countable] made up some weird concoction for me to drink.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

con•coct  (kon kokt′, kən-), v.t. 

1. to prepare or make by combining ingredients, esp. in cookery:
   to concoct a meal from leftovers.
2. to devise;
   make up;
   contrive:
   to concoct an excuse.

• Latin concoctus (past participle of concoquere to cook together), equivalent. to con- con- + coc-, variant stem of coquere to boil, cook¹ (akin to Greek péptein; see pepsin, peptic) + -tus past participle ending
• 1525–35

con•coct′er, con•coc′tor, n. 
con•coc′tive, adj. 
Synonyms

• 2. invent, fabricate, hatch.

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concoct / kənˈkɒkt/ verb (transitive)

1. to make by combining different ingredients
2. to invent; make up; contrive

Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin concoctus cooked together, from concoquere, from coquere to cook

conˈcocter, conˈcoctor noun