- to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
- to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
- to come upon; find.
- to create or devise (new ideas, machines, etc)
- to make up (falsehoods); fabricate
