Usually means: Create stories to fill gaps.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. confabulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confabulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confabulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confabulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. confabulate: Wordnik
  7. confabulate: Wiktionary
  8. confabulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. confabulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. confabulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Confabulate, confabulate: Dictionary.com
  12. Confabulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Confabulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. confabulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. confabulate: Rhymezone
  16. Confabulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. confabulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. confabulate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. confabulate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. confabulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. confabulate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. confabulate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confabulate: A Word A Day
  2. confabulate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confabulate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confabulate)

verb:  (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
verb:  (intransitive) To confer.
verb:  (ambitransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

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