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construct
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of CONSTRUCT
1
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts>
Synonyms concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
2
to form by putting together parts or materials <constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river>
Synonyms assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
Related Words carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
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