confabulate
/kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt/US // kənˈfæb yəˌleɪt //UK // (kənˈfæbjʊˌleɪt) //
混淆视听,混杂在一起
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v.无主动词 verb
- 1
con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing.
- : to converse informally; chat.
- : Psychiatry. to replace a gap in one's memory by a falsification that one believes to be true; engage in confabulation.
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Examples
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
Birds of a feather not only flock together, but, as every ornithologist knows full well, can confabulate.
Eden is not yet returned from Woodstock; I will confabulate with him.
In this manner, said my master, did the parson and I confabulate; and I set him down at his lodgings in the village.
An' whut dem six ghostes do but stand round an' confabulate?
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