Word Meanings - CONCOCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne. 2. To purify or refine chemically. Thomson. 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare

Additional info about word: CONCOCT

1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne. 2. To purify or refine chemically. Thomson. 3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage. 4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward. 5. To mature or perfect; to ripen. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCOCT)

• Drew
• Concoct
• compound
• mix
• hatch
• prepare
• season
• threaten
• impend
• increase
• collect
• form
• gather
• grow
• Elaborate
• Execute
• forge
• concoct
• mature
• Ferment
• Seethe
• brew
• warm
• chafe
• effervesce
• rankle
• fester
• Hatch
• Prepare
• devise
• scheme
• plot
• contrive
• incubate
• Invent
• Discover
• imagine
• elaborate
• conceive
• design
• fabricate
• originate
• find out
• frame
• feign

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONCOCT)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to CONCOCT)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• IMAGINE
  1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.