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invent Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: invent/ɪnˈvent/ ▶verb create or design (a new device, process, etc.). ■ make up (a name, story, etc.), especially so as to deceive. – derivatives inventor noun. – origin C15 (earlier (ME) as invention in the sense ‘discovery’): from L. invent-, invenire ‘contrive, discover’. 'invent' also found in these Oxford entries:
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