Definition of concoct in English:

concoct

verb kənˈkɒktkənˈkɑkt

[with object]

1Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.
配制（饭菜），调制，调和
she began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him
她开始烹制很可能会使他喜欢的饭菜。
Example sentencesExamples
- Students raid the fridge of the week's leftovers and concoct an elaborate meal, inviting over friends and family.
- Students concoct such dishes as East Asian noodles with coconut rice balls.
- As they get older they leave their parents alone, and rummage through the kitchen to concoct their own breakfasts.
- It delineates formulas for medicines and identifies the plant, animal, and mineral ingredients needed to concoct them.
- The proof is in some of the dishes concocted by Marshall.
- Not that this is a hastily concocted dish; the Agen prunes topping it have been soaked in brandy for well over a year.
- And the food completes the picture; former Ritz chef Maurice Guillouet concocts mouth-watering dishes as gorgeous as the designer-dressed diners who order them.
- Now the couple are employing a chef to concoct pre-packaged meals and light lunches using home-grown ingredients.
- The woman who came from the village to bring his evening meal had concocted the most revolting stew.
- Or concocting side dishes that deserve to accompany such wonderful beef, carried by waiters with focus and peripheral vision?
- Extracts posted today, seen in advance by the Guardian, reveal her worrying over forgetting to eat while campaigning and struggling to concoct meals for her children, and having to buy suits to look presentable.
- I grabbed a value meal, concocted Joey's special red Fanta and Coke drink and made my way to the station.
- You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
- Both of them were wrong, and to prove it the APO had concocted a meal with a Brahms symphony as the first course and some gourmet Wagner items in the second.
- They offer to concoct an authentic supper of refried beans and chorizo omelette.
- Because of that ritual, Diane loves concocting pasta suppers.
- I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like.
- A dedicated host concocts a new dish for a party.
- She makes a dish she concocted by pouring soup on chicken thighs.
- She'd send me back to the shop if something wasn't good enough, and leftovers were used to concoct the next meal - everything from new pasta fillings to tortas.
Synonyms
prepare, make, put together, assemble
cook
informal fix, rustle up
British informal knock up
1. 1.1 Create or devise (a story or plan)
  编造，虚构（故事）；策划（计划，设计）
  his cronies concocted a simple plan
  他的好友们制定了一个简单的计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I do not conclude that that delay undermines their credibility or supports the proposition that they are concocting a story.
  Mr Wheeler spent two months behind bars before detectives discovered she had concocted the story.
  He concocts a story of appointments with the council and market inspectors.
  Amanda concocts a story to tell Sebastian to ask Helena for the money and in turn Sebastian comes up with a story of his own when asking for the money.
  Don't waste their time concocting some stupid story - your bikes weren't stolen and you weren't waiting for his mom to take you to the library.
  They fool the simple folk by concocting exciting stories about their receiving messages from the Jinn.
  While Kate was downstairs devising her little plot to surprise her parents, Cameron was upstairs concocting a plan of his own.
  Hernandez confessed to the police that he concocted the entire story as he desperately needs money to support his pregnant girlfriend.
  Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France.
  On cross-examination he denied concocting the story.
  Finkel is a US journalist who was fired from the New York Times in 2002 after concocting a story for that newspaper's magazine section.
  She would concoct stories in her brain about each picture, the plot taking her wherever it may.
  Mrs Dawson doesn't want Mary learning the ‘filthy truth’ of her conception, and concocts a story about her granddaughter's father being a war hero killed in action.
  I believe there was a much more serious attempt to pervert the course of justice by concocting a story that shifted the blame to Mr Whittle.
  We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world.
  This leads us to, probably, the most interesting question: why has this story been concocted and so prominently displayed?
  Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts.
  If Sarah can imagine and concoct a story like that, she needs to be at Random House.
  Officers working on Operation Impact have uncovered dozens of cases of people concocting stories of crime.
  The Gardaí were arrested on Saturday morning and questioned about concocting a story in order to aid a fellow Garda who is facing firearms charges.
  Synonyms
  make up, think up, dream up, fabricate, invent, contrive, manufacture, trump up
  devise, create, form, formulate, fashion, forge
  hatch, brew, plot, scheme
  informal cook up

Derivatives

concocter

noun

Why create the mischief and then pretend that he was not the concocter of the trouble?
Example sentencesExamples
- Bickerstaffe was basically a concocter of ‘books’ for musical pieces, and, as with modem scripts for musicals and television shows, literary authorship was hardly an issue.
- The Waterman proved a taking afterpiece, and its concocter went on to cobble together many more shows like it and to compose music for them, being content to reap profits from the theater without staking claims to literary stature.
- Jill is an invaluable babysitter and casserole concocter for her son and daughter-in-law.
- This has not escaped the attention of detergent concocters, who want an organic stain-removing enzyme, as well as biochemical supply houses.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin concoct-, literally 'cooked together', from concoquere. The original sense was 'refine metals or minerals by heating', later 'cook'.

cook from Old English:
The Old English coc, the early form of cook, was always male. The word was applied either to the domestic officer in charge of the preparation of food in a large household or to a tradesman who prepared and sold food. Women who prepared dinner started being called cooks in the mid 16th century. The root of the word is Latin coquus, also the source of concoct (mid 16th century) and biscuit. Cook has been used to mean ‘to tamper with’ since the 1630s, giving us cook the books, meaning ‘to alter records or accounts dishonestly’. The proverb too many cooks spoil the broth also dates back to the 16th century. It is not certain where the phrase cook someone's goose comes from. The reference could be to a goose being reared and fattened up for a forthcoming special occasion. Anyone who killed and cooked the goose before the proper time would have ruined the plans for the feast.

Rhymes

decoct

Definition of concoct in US English:

concoct

verbkənˈkɑktkənˈkäkt

[with object]

1Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.
配制（饭菜），调制，调和
they concoct relish from corn that is so naturally sweet no extra sugar is needed
Example sentencesExamples
- Now the couple are employing a chef to concoct pre-packaged meals and light lunches using home-grown ingredients.
- Students concoct such dishes as East Asian noodles with coconut rice balls.
- Both of them were wrong, and to prove it the APO had concocted a meal with a Brahms symphony as the first course and some gourmet Wagner items in the second.
- I grabbed a value meal, concocted Joey's special red Fanta and Coke drink and made my way to the station.
- And the food completes the picture; former Ritz chef Maurice Guillouet concocts mouth-watering dishes as gorgeous as the designer-dressed diners who order them.
- She makes a dish she concocted by pouring soup on chicken thighs.
- Or concocting side dishes that deserve to accompany such wonderful beef, carried by waiters with focus and peripheral vision?
- Not that this is a hastily concocted dish; the Agen prunes topping it have been soaked in brandy for well over a year.
- You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal!
- Extracts posted today, seen in advance by the Guardian, reveal her worrying over forgetting to eat while campaigning and struggling to concoct meals for her children, and having to buy suits to look presentable.
- A dedicated host concocts a new dish for a party.
- They offer to concoct an authentic supper of refried beans and chorizo omelette.
- I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like.
- It delineates formulas for medicines and identifies the plant, animal, and mineral ingredients needed to concoct them.
- The proof is in some of the dishes concocted by Marshall.
- She'd send me back to the shop if something wasn't good enough, and leftovers were used to concoct the next meal - everything from new pasta fillings to tortas.
- The woman who came from the village to bring his evening meal had concocted the most revolting stew.
- As they get older they leave their parents alone, and rummage through the kitchen to concoct their own breakfasts.
- Students raid the fridge of the week's leftovers and concoct an elaborate meal, inviting over friends and family.
- Because of that ritual, Diane loves concocting pasta suppers.
Synonyms
prepare, make, put together, assemble
1. 1.1 Create or devise (said especially of a story or plan)
  编造，虚构（故事）；策划（计划，设计）
  they concocted a preposterous but entertaining story
  Example sentencesExamples
  Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts.
  Officers working on Operation Impact have uncovered dozens of cases of people concocting stories of crime.
  The Gardaí were arrested on Saturday morning and questioned about concocting a story in order to aid a fellow Garda who is facing firearms charges.
  Hernandez confessed to the police that he concocted the entire story as he desperately needs money to support his pregnant girlfriend.
  He concocts a story of appointments with the council and market inspectors.
  Amanda concocts a story to tell Sebastian to ask Helena for the money and in turn Sebastian comes up with a story of his own when asking for the money.
  We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world.
  Mrs Dawson doesn't want Mary learning the ‘filthy truth’ of her conception, and concocts a story about her granddaughter's father being a war hero killed in action.
  I believe there was a much more serious attempt to pervert the course of justice by concocting a story that shifted the blame to Mr Whittle.
  Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France.
  She would concoct stories in her brain about each picture, the plot taking her wherever it may.
  They fool the simple folk by concocting exciting stories about their receiving messages from the Jinn.
  If Sarah can imagine and concoct a story like that, she needs to be at Random House.
  Finkel is a US journalist who was fired from the New York Times in 2002 after concocting a story for that newspaper's magazine section.
  Mr Wheeler spent two months behind bars before detectives discovered she had concocted the story.
  While Kate was downstairs devising her little plot to surprise her parents, Cameron was upstairs concocting a plan of his own.
  This leads us to, probably, the most interesting question: why has this story been concocted and so prominently displayed?
  Don't waste their time concocting some stupid story - your bikes weren't stolen and you weren't waiting for his mom to take you to the library.
  I do not conclude that that delay undermines their credibility or supports the proposition that they are concocting a story.
  On cross-examination he denied concocting the story.
  Synonyms
  make up, think up, dream up, fabricate, invent, contrive, manufacture, trump up

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin concoct-, literally ‘cooked together’, from concoquere. The original sense was ‘refine metals or minerals by heating’, later ‘cook’.

单词	concoct
释义	Definition of concoct in English: concoct verb kənˈkɒktkənˈkɑkt [with object] 1Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients. 配制（饭菜），调制，调和 she began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him 她开始烹制很可能会使他喜欢的饭菜。 Example sentencesExamples Students raid the fridge of the week's leftovers and concoct an elaborate meal, inviting over friends and family. Students concoct such dishes as East Asian noodles with coconut rice balls. As they get older they leave their parents alone, and rummage through the kitchen to concoct their own breakfasts. It delineates formulas for medicines and identifies the plant, animal, and mineral ingredients needed to concoct them. The proof is in some of the dishes concocted by Marshall. Not that this is a hastily concocted dish; the Agen prunes topping it have been soaked in brandy for well over a year. And the food completes the picture; former Ritz chef Maurice Guillouet concocts mouth-watering dishes as gorgeous as the designer-dressed diners who order them. Now the couple are employing a chef to concoct pre-packaged meals and light lunches using home-grown ingredients. The woman who came from the village to bring his evening meal had concocted the most revolting stew. Or concocting side dishes that deserve to accompany such wonderful beef, carried by waiters with focus and peripheral vision? Extracts posted today, seen in advance by the Guardian, reveal her worrying over forgetting to eat while campaigning and struggling to concoct meals for her children, and having to buy suits to look presentable. I grabbed a value meal, concocted Joey's special red Fanta and Coke drink and made my way to the station. You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal! Both of them were wrong, and to prove it the APO had concocted a meal with a Brahms symphony as the first course and some gourmet Wagner items in the second. They offer to concoct an authentic supper of refried beans and chorizo omelette. Because of that ritual, Diane loves concocting pasta suppers. I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like. A dedicated host concocts a new dish for a party. She makes a dish she concocted by pouring soup on chicken thighs. She'd send me back to the shop if something wasn't good enough, and leftovers were used to concoct the next meal - everything from new pasta fillings to tortas. Synonyms prepare, make, put together, assemble cook informal fix, rustle up British informal knock up 1.1 Create or devise (a story or plan) 编造，虚构（故事）；策划（计划，设计） his cronies concocted a simple plan 他的好友们制定了一个简单的计划。 Example sentencesExamples I do not conclude that that delay undermines their credibility or supports the proposition that they are concocting a story. Mr Wheeler spent two months behind bars before detectives discovered she had concocted the story. He concocts a story of appointments with the council and market inspectors. Amanda concocts a story to tell Sebastian to ask Helena for the money and in turn Sebastian comes up with a story of his own when asking for the money. Don't waste their time concocting some stupid story - your bikes weren't stolen and you weren't waiting for his mom to take you to the library. They fool the simple folk by concocting exciting stories about their receiving messages from the Jinn. While Kate was downstairs devising her little plot to surprise her parents, Cameron was upstairs concocting a plan of his own. Hernandez confessed to the police that he concocted the entire story as he desperately needs money to support his pregnant girlfriend. Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. On cross-examination he denied concocting the story. Finkel is a US journalist who was fired from the New York Times in 2002 after concocting a story for that newspaper's magazine section. She would concoct stories in her brain about each picture, the plot taking her wherever it may. Mrs Dawson doesn't want Mary learning the ‘filthy truth’ of her conception, and concocts a story about her granddaughter's father being a war hero killed in action. I believe there was a much more serious attempt to pervert the course of justice by concocting a story that shifted the blame to Mr Whittle. We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world. This leads us to, probably, the most interesting question: why has this story been concocted and so prominently displayed? Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts. If Sarah can imagine and concoct a story like that, she needs to be at Random House. Officers working on Operation Impact have uncovered dozens of cases of people concocting stories of crime. The Gardaí were arrested on Saturday morning and questioned about concocting a story in order to aid a fellow Garda who is facing firearms charges. Synonyms make up, think up, dream up, fabricate, invent, contrive, manufacture, trump up devise, create, form, formulate, fashion, forge hatch, brew, plot, scheme informal cook up Derivatives concocter noun Why create the mischief and then pretend that he was not the concocter of the trouble? Example sentencesExamples Bickerstaffe was basically a concocter of ‘books’ for musical pieces, and, as with modem scripts for musicals and television shows, literary authorship was hardly an issue. The Waterman proved a taking afterpiece, and its concocter went on to cobble together many more shows like it and to compose music for them, being content to reap profits from the theater without staking claims to literary stature. Jill is an invaluable babysitter and casserole concocter for her son and daughter-in-law. This has not escaped the attention of detergent concocters, who want an organic stain-removing enzyme, as well as biochemical supply houses. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin concoct-, literally 'cooked together', from concoquere. The original sense was 'refine metals or minerals by heating', later 'cook'. cook from Old English: The Old English coc, the early form of cook, was always male. The word was applied either to the domestic officer in charge of the preparation of food in a large household or to a tradesman who prepared and sold food. Women who prepared dinner started being called cooks in the mid 16th century. The root of the word is Latin coquus, also the source of concoct (mid 16th century) and biscuit. Cook has been used to mean ‘to tamper with’ since the 1630s, giving us cook the books, meaning ‘to alter records or accounts dishonestly’. The proverb too many cooks spoil the broth also dates back to the 16th century. It is not certain where the phrase cook someone's goose comes from. The reference could be to a goose being reared and fattened up for a forthcoming special occasion. Anyone who killed and cooked the goose before the proper time would have ruined the plans for the feast. Rhymes decoct Definition of concoct in US English: concoct verbkənˈkɑktkənˈkäkt [with object] 1Make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients. 配制（饭菜），调制，调和 they concoct relish from corn that is so naturally sweet no extra sugar is needed Example sentencesExamples Now the couple are employing a chef to concoct pre-packaged meals and light lunches using home-grown ingredients. Students concoct such dishes as East Asian noodles with coconut rice balls. Both of them were wrong, and to prove it the APO had concocted a meal with a Brahms symphony as the first course and some gourmet Wagner items in the second. I grabbed a value meal, concocted Joey's special red Fanta and Coke drink and made my way to the station. And the food completes the picture; former Ritz chef Maurice Guillouet concocts mouth-watering dishes as gorgeous as the designer-dressed diners who order them. She makes a dish she concocted by pouring soup on chicken thighs. Or concocting side dishes that deserve to accompany such wonderful beef, carried by waiters with focus and peripheral vision? Not that this is a hastily concocted dish; the Agen prunes topping it have been soaked in brandy for well over a year. You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal! Extracts posted today, seen in advance by the Guardian, reveal her worrying over forgetting to eat while campaigning and struggling to concoct meals for her children, and having to buy suits to look presentable. A dedicated host concocts a new dish for a party. They offer to concoct an authentic supper of refried beans and chorizo omelette. I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like. It delineates formulas for medicines and identifies the plant, animal, and mineral ingredients needed to concoct them. The proof is in some of the dishes concocted by Marshall. She'd send me back to the shop if something wasn't good enough, and leftovers were used to concoct the next meal - everything from new pasta fillings to tortas. The woman who came from the village to bring his evening meal had concocted the most revolting stew. As they get older they leave their parents alone, and rummage through the kitchen to concoct their own breakfasts. Students raid the fridge of the week's leftovers and concoct an elaborate meal, inviting over friends and family. Because of that ritual, Diane loves concocting pasta suppers. Synonyms prepare, make, put together, assemble 1.1 Create or devise (said especially of a story or plan) 编造，虚构（故事）；策划（计划，设计） they concocted a preposterous but entertaining story Example sentencesExamples Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts. Officers working on Operation Impact have uncovered dozens of cases of people concocting stories of crime. The Gardaí were arrested on Saturday morning and questioned about concocting a story in order to aid a fellow Garda who is facing firearms charges. Hernandez confessed to the police that he concocted the entire story as he desperately needs money to support his pregnant girlfriend. He concocts a story of appointments with the council and market inspectors. Amanda concocts a story to tell Sebastian to ask Helena for the money and in turn Sebastian comes up with a story of his own when asking for the money. We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world. Mrs Dawson doesn't want Mary learning the ‘filthy truth’ of her conception, and concocts a story about her granddaughter's father being a war hero killed in action. I believe there was a much more serious attempt to pervert the course of justice by concocting a story that shifted the blame to Mr Whittle. Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. She would concoct stories in her brain about each picture, the plot taking her wherever it may. They fool the simple folk by concocting exciting stories about their receiving messages from the Jinn. If Sarah can imagine and concoct a story like that, she needs to be at Random House. Finkel is a US journalist who was fired from the New York Times in 2002 after concocting a story for that newspaper's magazine section. Mr Wheeler spent two months behind bars before detectives discovered she had concocted the story. While Kate was downstairs devising her little plot to surprise her parents, Cameron was upstairs concocting a plan of his own. This leads us to, probably, the most interesting question: why has this story been concocted and so prominently displayed? Don't waste their time concocting some stupid story - your bikes weren't stolen and you weren't waiting for his mom to take you to the library. I do not conclude that that delay undermines their credibility or supports the proposition that they are concocting a story. On cross-examination he denied concocting the story. Synonyms make up, think up, dream up, fabricate, invent, contrive, manufacture, trump up Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin concoct-, literally ‘cooked together’, from concoquere. The original sense was ‘refine metals or minerals by heating’, later ‘cook’.
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