"confabulate" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "confab"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰeh₂-",
        "id": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cōnfābulārī",
        "3": "ate",
        "lang1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin cōnfābulārī + -ate",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin cōnfābulārī + -ate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "confabulates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "confabulate (third-person singular simple present confabulates, present participle confabulating, simple past and past participle confabulated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "con‧fab‧ul‧ate"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "confable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "confabular"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "confabulation"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "confabulative"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "confabulator"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "confabulatory"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak casually with; to chat."
      ],
      "id": "en-confabulate-en-verb-Ibmr2bOV",
      "links": [
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ],
        [
          "casual",
          "casual"
        ],
        [
          "chat",
          "chat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "confab"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To confer."
      ],
      "id": "en-confabulate-en-verb-4MGE03dI",
      "links": [
        [
          "confer",
          "confer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To confer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Psychology",
          "orig": "en:Psychology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 3 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 8 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ate",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ...",
          "text": "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory."
      ],
      "id": "en-confabulate-en-verb-VdsWBhw-",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "fabricate",
          "fabricate"
        ],
        [
          "memory",
          "memory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 0 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
          "word": "confabuler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 0 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
          "word": "konfabulieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 0 98",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
          "word": "konfabulere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 0 98",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
          "word": "confabular"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "confabulate"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)",
    "English terms suffixed with -ate",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "confab"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰeh₂-",
        "id": "speak"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cōnfābulārī",
        "3": "ate",
        "lang1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin cōnfābulārī + -ate",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin cōnfābulārī + -ate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "confabulates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confabulated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "confabulate (third-person singular simple present confabulates, present participle confabulating, simple past and past participle confabulated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "con‧fab‧ul‧ate"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "confable"
    },
    {
      "word": "confabular"
    },
    {
      "word": "confabulation"
    },
    {
      "word": "confabulative"
    },
    {
      "word": "confabulator"
    },
    {
      "word": "confabulatory"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak casually with; to chat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ],
        [
          "casual",
          "casual"
        ],
        [
          "chat",
          "chat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "confab"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To confer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confer",
          "confer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To confer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Psychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ...",
          "text": "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "fabricate",
          "fabricate"
        ],
        [
          "memory",
          "memory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
      "word": "confabuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
      "word": "konfabulieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
      "word": "konfabulere"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory",
      "word": "confabular"
    }
  ],
  "word": "confabulate"
}