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Present Participle
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Past Participle
confabulated
1
to have a casual and light conversation without sharing a lot of information
- As they waited for the meeting to start, colleagues confabulated about their weekend plans.
- The neighbors often confabulate over the fence about gardening tips.
- During the party, guests confabulated about movies, music, and other light topics.
- At the family reunion, relatives confabulated about old memories and shared laughter.
- Students gathered in the cafeteria to confabulate during their lunch break.
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to confer or discuss something with others
- The team will confabulate tomorrow to discuss the project's progress.
- The committee regularly confabulates to brainstorm new ideas.
- We need to confabulate before finalizing the proposal.
- The board members will confabulate next week to review the budget.
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to create or invent fictitious experiences or details to fill gaps in one's memory
- After the accident, he began to confabulate stories about events that never happened.
- Patients with certain neurological conditions may confabulate to make sense of fragmented memories.
- The witness seemed to confabulate details of the incident when questioned by the police.
- Elderly individuals with dementia may confabulate as their memory deteriorates.
- The therapist helped the client recognize when he was confabulating memories.