concoct
Meanings
verb
- To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
- To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
- To digest.
noun
- A concoction.
adj
- Digested or affected by heat.
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Etymology
From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).
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