confabulate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /kənˈfæb.jul.eɪt/
confabulate (confabulates, present participle confabulating; past and past participle confabulated)
- (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
- (intransitive) To confer.
- (ambitransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
- 1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ... ↗
- "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response."
- 1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ... ↗
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