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Concoction
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What's The Definition Of Concoction?
[n] the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
[n] the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose; "his testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories" [n] an occurrence of an unusual mixture; "it suddenly spewed out a thick green concoction" [n] any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" Synonyms | Synonyms for Concoction: confection | intermixture | mixture Related Terms | Find terms related to Concoction: admixture | alloy | amalgam | artifact | authorship | beginning | blend | brainchild | brew | canard | child | coinage | combination | combo | commixture | composite | conception | confection | contrivance | contriving | creation | creative effort | creature | crowning achievement | decoction | decoctum | devising | distillation | effect | end product | ensemble | essence | extract | extravaganza | fable | fabrication | fiction | figment | forgery | fruit | generation | handiwork | hatching | immixture | improvisation | intermixture | invention | issue | magma | making do | manufacture | masterpiece | masterwork | mintage | mixture | myth | new mintage | offspring | opera | opus | opuscule | origination | outcome | outgrowth | paste | product | production | result | romance | work See Also | batter | conception | creating from raw materials | design | dough | dressing | excogitation | filling | food product | foodstuff | innovation | invention | mincemeat | mix | mix | mixture | premix | roux | stuffing Concoction In Webster's Dictionary \Con*coc"tion\, n. [L. concoctio.]
1. A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition;
digestion. [Obs.]
2. The act of concocting or preparing by combining different
ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
3. The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising;
rumination. --Donne.
4. (Med.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and
return to a normal condition. [Obs.]
5. The act of perfecting or maturing. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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