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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -confabulat-, *confabulat*
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WordNet (3.0)
confabulate(v) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
confabulation(n) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Confabulate

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating. ] [ L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabula. See Fable. ] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confabulation

n. [ L. confabulatio. ] Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confabulatory

a. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

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