manufacture
/ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/ verb B2- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
- To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use. · to manufacture wool into blankets
- To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point. · The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.
He/she/it manufactures · Past manufactured · Past participle manufactured · -ing form manufacturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- manufacture
- He/she/it
- manufactures
- Past
- manufactured
- Past participle
- manufactured
- -ing form
- manufacturing
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“Yes, gentlemen,” said he, “it is the most famous pearl now existing in the world, and it has been my good fortune, by a connected chain of inductive reasoning, to trace it from the Prince of Colonna’s bedroom at the Dacre Hotel, where it was lost, to the interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co., of Stepney.
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
How can such enormous jars have been manufactured?”
The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.
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