invent
/ɪnˈvɛnt/ verb A2- To design a new process or mechanism. · After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- To create something fictional for a particular purpose. · I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.· We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
Plural invent · He/she/it invents · Past invented · Past participle invented · -ing form inventing
Verb forms
- Base form
- invent
- He/she/it
- invents
- Past
- invented
- Past participle
- invented
- -ing form
- inventing
From the library
“I can lick the man that invented poverty.”
I invented a preparation that makes linen as smooth and as easy to write on as parchment.”
“I can see you’re trying to invent something!”
They never meant to do any more--the Bandar-log never mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
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